The FCC mandates that video relay services make themselves available to the deaf community 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And they have to work efficiently: the services must answer at least ...

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Monday called on the Federal Communications Commission to stop reducing reimbursement to video relay service providers that link deaf and hearing people in real time.

Using a video relay service such as Sorenson Communications, a deaf person can make a phone call through a video-conference phone to a hearing person receiving a call on a standard phone, using an ...

Called Sorensen Video Relay Service, ... To access Sorenson's new service, the deaf need to provide their own TV with video input, and a broadband Internet connection.

LAKE STEVENS — It’s a service that helps bridge the gap between people who are deaf and people who can hear.

OTTAWA and GATINEAU, QC, Nov. 1, 2017 /CNW/ - A year after its launch, SRV Canada VRS has extended its service hours, enabling American Sign Language or Langue des signes québécoise users to ...

They are campaigning for a universally-accessible video relay service of the sort that the Americans have operated successfully for the past 10 years. Written by Jack Schofield, Contributor May 11 ...

Similarly, some deaf consumers would benefit from the increased use of deaf interpreters to bridge communication between them and the VRS interpreter. However, such services add costs.

An FCC program for the deaf sounds like the modern equivalent of ringing Mabel the operator down at the phone exchange so she can patch through your call. Assuming, of course, that Mabel has ...

Further, as VRS providers seek to cut costs, innovation and investment in improved VRS are also lagging. For years, deaf consumers have asked the FCC to permit VRS companies to provide specialized ...

The Canadian Administrator of Video Relay Service (CAV) is a not-for-profit telecommunications services company with a mandate from the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ...