The Federal Communications Commission amended its rules to allow phone companies to replace support for an outdated form of text telephone communications, known as TTY, with support for real-time text, to provide reliable telephone communications for Americans who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, or who have a speech disability.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would recognize real-time text as a replacement technology for text telephones, also known as TTY devices, on wireless phone networks starting in December 2017 for larger carriers. Read more here.
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, and Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureaus) have granted members of the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) a temporary, limited waiver of the Commission’s requirements to support text telephony (TTY) technology on wireless networks to the
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has released the tentative agenda for its April open meeting, scheduled for April 28, 2016. Read more here.
