Tag: Federal Communications Commission

Help TDI Ensure a Healthy Future for VRS

Action Alert!!! Help TDI Ensure a Healthy Future for VRS New Vlog: It’s Our World Too! On the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), TDI is asking for your help in planning the future of video relay…

FCC Takes Action to Protect and Sustain Vital Service

FCC Takes Action to Protect and Sustain Vital Service for the Deaf Commission Votes Unanimously on Immediate and Long-Term Approaches Press release from the Federal Communications Commission, 6/28/10 Washington, DC — The Federal Communications Commission has taken two actions to…

FCC Threatens Future of Video Relay Service

FCC Threatens Future of Video Relay Service! May 11, 2010 – Sorenson Response to FCC Statement of May 10, 2010 Click here to read Sorenson Communication’s response to the FCC’s May 10th Statement. http://www.sorensonvrs.com/fcc_response May 7, 2010 – VRS THREATENED…

Working with the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee

Working with the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee By Cheryl Heppner Some of you may know that I was reappointed last year to serve as a representative of NVRC on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Consumer Advisory Committee. The FCC’s work…

FCC Actions Block Consumer VRS Calls

FCC Actions Block Consumer VRS Calls The NAD learned that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has not paid Video Relay Service (VRS) providers for certain types of VRS calls since July 2009.  As a result, some VRS providers are not…

Twenty-six Charged in Nationwide Scheme to Defraud the FCC’s Video Relay Service Program

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 19, 2009 Twenty-six Charged in Nationwide Scheme to Defraud the FCC’s Video Relay Service Program Arrests Made in Nine States Indictments were unsealed today against 26 people charged…