VRS Action Now

Ten Covenants by Sheri Mutti
VRS Action Now I came across this wonderful text by Sheri Mutti, and have received her permission to reprint here for your benefit - Evan Greetings Consumers who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Speech to Speech: I’ve attempted to basically put together a list of what the consumers’ needs are on the TN issue, utilizing TDI’s, et al recent [...]
Media Language Tech Legal Thu, Apr 17 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Bob Daniels vlogs on why TN is important
VRS Action Now Wow!  This is by far the best vlog I have seen!  Bob Daniels posted a vlog at  [link] that we need telephone numbers for VRS.  He also refers people to Carmen's www site (VRSTNnow.com) so they learn how to file FCC comments!  WOW! This truly is internet community teamwork for the best!  Go now and visit Bob's vlog and see [...]
Tech Legal Tue, Apr 15 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

How to find what was filed with FCC, and how you can file...
VRS Action Now Hi everyone!  Yesterday was the deadline to file comments to refresh the record on TN’s with the FCC.  It’s easy to find out what was filed - just go to [link]  then enter “03-123” in the first field “Proceeding”, then click “Retrieve Document List”.  There were some interesting comments as you can see.   Now we have until [...]
Language Tech Legal Wed, Apr 09 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Ed Bosson vlogs on FCC releases of last week
VRS Action Now I came across this great vlog by Ed Bosson, the “father” of VRS.  He explains in ASL about the FCC releases I mentioned earlier that we will get our own real telephone number (TN)  by the end of this year.  I recommend you take the time and watch it here.  It’s about 7.5 minutes, and worth [...]
Tech Mon, Mar 31 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

VRS and telephone numbers: what is best for the customer?
VRS Action Now   Wow.  Thanks to my friend Carmen over at vrstnnow.com, I learned that FCC is going to get us all our own REAL telephone numbers (TNs) by the end of 2008!  I am a little worried.  I understand FCC is asking people for update information on different databases for use to make TNs work.  This made [...]
Language Tech Legal Tue, Mar 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

I’m back!
VRS Action Now Hi there everyone!  Lots has happened in my life recently and I didn’t get around to posting here as often as I wanted to. Where are we with the VRS happenings?   Go America acquired Verizon relay and then merged with HOVRS.   It appears that Snap VRS had programming problems where consumers couldn't use their Snap-assigned phone numbers [...]
Language Tech Legal Sun, Mar 23 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post