TracFone Gets Text Telephony Waiver Extension
The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau extended until June 30, 2021, a waiver for TracFone Wireless of FCC requirements to support text telephony (TTY) technology over IP-based wireless services. The bureau said Friday it has approved similar waivers for…
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AT&T, Verizon, Cellular South, the Competitive Carriers Association and the Iowa Independent Telephone Companies. “We continue to be persuaded that TracFone, as a reseller of IP-based wireless services, is similarly situated to the underlying facilities-based wireless carriers for which it resells service, and that its ability to provide either TTY or RTT [real-time text] over wireless IP networks is limited by the extent to which solutions implemented by such carriers can support these technologies,” the bureau said in the order in docket 15-178.