fcc Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/fcc/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png fcc Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/fcc/ 32 32 8 Essential FCC Rules For VRS Interpreted For Your Awareness https://deafniche.com/fccvrsinterpreted/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 03:51:06 +0000 https://deafniche.com/?p=10598 With the rise in video relay’s popularity, there are rules put in place by the FCC to protect consumers and their providers (Sorenson, ZVRS, Purple, Convo, etc.) The list below are some of the most recent rules and their interpretations: (NOTE: “Providers” are companies that provide the video relay service and equipment, such as Convo, […]

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]]> The Top 5 Good Things That Happened For the Deaf In 2016 https://deafniche.com/top-good-things-happened-2016/ https://deafniche.com/top-good-things-happened-2016/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2017 10:25:58 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=9733 This has been quite a year of changes, some good and some bad. We’d like to kick off the New Year with a list of positive things that happened in 2016! For the first time in television history, a deaf celebrity won a dancing show America already loved Nyle DiMarco when he proved his modeling […]

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]]> https://deafniche.com/top-good-things-happened-2016/feed/ 2 Real-Time Texting: FCC Announces New Communication for Deaf and Hard of Hearing https://deafniche.com/fcc-announces-new-communication-deaf-hard-hearing/ https://deafniche.com/fcc-announces-new-communication-deaf-hard-hearing/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:57:38 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=9686 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that starting December 2017 the TTY will be gone. Instead of the TTY, Real Time Texting (RTT) will be put in place. The FCC recognized that an overwhelming number of deaf and hard of hearing use cell phones to communicate with families and friends. With this recognition and […]

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