Video Relay Service : Program Funding and Reform

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Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division

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This report is one in a series of updates. For the most recent coverage of this report series, please see 13-R4-2830 in the 2013 issue. Provides overview of video relay service (VRS), which allows ...

This report is one in a series of updates. For the most recent coverage of this report series, please see 13-R4-2830 in the 2013 issue.

Provides overview of video relay service (VRS), which allows persons with hearing disabilities using American Sign Language to communicate with voice telephone users through video equipment, rather than through typed text. Reviews June 2013 enacted and proposed FCC reforms to VRS, and addresses Congressional considerations.

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