Hamilton Relay Lobbies FCC on IP CTS Functional Equivalency

Hamilton Relay urged the FCC to preserve adequate rate caps that IP captioned telephone service (IP CTS) providers may recover for the cost of providing services with a communications assistant (CA), according to an ex parte filing posted Tuesday in docket 03-123. The company said in separate meetings with aides to Commissioners Nathan Simington and Anna Gomez that CA’s are needed for about 25% of all IP CTS (see 2406180063). “A failure to preserve CA’s is a failure to preserve functional equivalency,” Hamilton said.