FCC has launched public notice about NOI as Notice of Inquiry it was long-over due. FCC finally came up with this new NOI and it asked about procudures, structure and for your views about VRS. There was so many questions and it allows everyone to review and how VRS should operate. The FCC is laying opportunity at the table so the community can share our views. Several VRS providers filed comments to reply in rgearding NOI.

This is interesting, man kind and finally that we have been waiting for. Hop in and see their voices today. Let us educate VRS how it should be provided for the deaf community.

For detailed documents PDF and videos, go to:

http://www.myvrs.org/fcc-center/fcc_noi.html

When FCC made it’s available for Video Relay Providers to make a comment filing with FCC Docket 10-51 and FCC states that the comment will be available within 45 days after it was announced. Since then, several providers made public comment in regarding the 10-51 docket.

This statement states that:

On June 28, 2010, the Commission released a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) in the above captioned matter seeking comments on issues concerning video relay service.  Comments are due on August 18, 2010; reply comments are due on September 2, 2010. On July 26, 2010, CSDVRS, LLC, Convo Communications, LLC, Purple Communications, Inc. and Snap Telecommunications, Inc. (Petitioners) filed a motion to extend the comment period to ninety days after publication in the Federal Register and to extend the reply comment period to forty-five days after the comments are due

FCC made it clear and the decision is final as of:

We find that Petitioners have not stated sufficient grounds for departure from Commission policy. We point out that the Commission released the NOI three weeks before publication in the Federal Register, effectively adding that period to the time within which parties could prepare their comments.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, that the Motion for Extension of Comment Period, filed by CSDVRS, LLC, Convo Communications, LLC, Purple Communications, Inc. and Snap Telecommunications, Inc., IS DENIED.

This is very interesting that FCC denied the providers to have 90 days more for the comment filing. I wonder what would these providers would have to say?

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That simple! The poll will be open until August 31, 2010 and the winner will be announced on September 8, 2010 to see who is the “VP Device of the Year”.