VRS Providers Seek 6-8-Year Rates
Adopt a "six-to-eight-year timeframe" for video relay services rates, asked Convo, Sorenson and ZP Better Together in a letter posted Thursday in FCC docket 03-123. "A longer rate period such as this would enable the kind of long-term planning that…
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lenders and investors expect businesses to undertake and provide stability for VRS providers," the VRS providers said. Rates should be adjusted for inflation annually and costs of numbering, E-911, R&D, and outreach should be eligible, they said. GlobalVRS agreed that making outreach an eligible cost is "entirely reasonable" if "specific parameters" are established, saying that otherwise, a shorter rate cycle would provide more "flexibility to account for changing cost structures."