CaptionMate: FCC Should Adopt 'Emergent Rate' for Smaller IP CTS Providers

CaptionMate urged the FCC to give smaller providers of IP captioned telephone services a "fair shot at achieving scale" by establishing an emergent rate (see 2406030062). The company said in separate meetings with aides to Commissioners Brendan Carr and Geoffrey Starks that the cost of an emergent rate "would be exceedingly small and more than offset by even modest reductions to" the automatic speech recognition-only rate of larger providers. CaptionMate also met with the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics, and the Disability Rights Office, per a filing Thursday in docket 03-123.