TracFone Gets Temporary TTY Waiver
The Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau gave low-cost carrier TracFone until Dec. 31 to support text telephony (TTY) over its IP-based wireless service. As a reseller of wireless services, TracFone told the FCC, it has little control of timing. “TracFone…
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asserts that its requested waiver is to enable it to provide its customers access to Wi-Fi calling,” said a Thursday order. “TracFone points out that from a technical prospective, it provides the same wireless service, over the same communications network provided by AT&T. As such, TracFone notes, it is only able to comply with Commission rules requiring support for TTY to the extent its underlying carrier complies with those rules.” AT&T got a similar waiver, also until Dec. 31, in 2015.