That’s what I left my previous comment on Ed’s Telecom blog. Yes, I also am concerned about the unimaginable ramification within the VRS industry on the employment of deaf people –
I guess that will affect the entire VRS industry to make the hirings of qualified deaf employees to be more undesirable due to the burdensome business expenses.
I expect various TRUE consumer organizations, as opposed to PROXY or ARTIFICIAL TURF consumer organizations, representing the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community (ie. NAD, TDI, DHHCAN, etc.) to file criticisms with all due speed against this unfair FCC regulation with copies to the federal representatives. This new regulation will create barriers for hiring deaf and hard of hearing people in relay services. As a deaf person and heavy user of relay services, I prefer dealing with deaf experts as opposed to experts who can hear. Yes, I admit my well justified bias from years of personal experience in dealing with insensitive and ignorant hearing people and the hearies of FCC has once again verified my basis for not trusting them. I look forward to their filings so that I can use them as models to create my own criticism of this regulation with copies to my representative and 2 senators.
I find it irony that Convo and others disagreed with you by saying that they have no problems with the ruling–and that they are great! Now Convo filed a petition saying that the ruling will have a negative impact on Deaf people and should be changed. That was exactly what you said in your vlog. I wonder if Convo and others will apologize to you and Purple? Thank you for having the courage to be the first to speak out against the ruling because of how it hurts Deaf people.
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February 26th, 2010 at 1:36 am
That’s what I left my previous comment on Ed’s Telecom blog. Yes, I also am concerned about the unimaginable ramification within the VRS industry on the employment of deaf people –
I guess that will affect the entire VRS industry to make the hirings of qualified deaf employees to be more undesirable due to the burdensome business expenses.
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February 26th, 2010 at 5:01 am
I expect various TRUE consumer organizations, as opposed to PROXY or ARTIFICIAL TURF consumer organizations, representing the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community (ie. NAD, TDI, DHHCAN, etc.) to file criticisms with all due speed against this unfair FCC regulation with copies to the federal representatives. This new regulation will create barriers for hiring deaf and hard of hearing people in relay services. As a deaf person and heavy user of relay services, I prefer dealing with deaf experts as opposed to experts who can hear. Yes, I admit my well justified bias from years of personal experience in dealing with insensitive and ignorant hearing people and the hearies of FCC has once again verified my basis for not trusting them. I look forward to their filings so that I can use them as models to create my own criticism of this regulation with copies to my representative and 2 senators.
March 9th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
I find it irony that Convo and others disagreed with you by saying that they have no problems with the ruling–and that they are great! Now Convo filed a petition saying that the ruling will have a negative impact on Deaf people and should be changed. That was exactly what you said in your vlog. I wonder if Convo and others will apologize to you and Purple? Thank you for having the courage to be the first to speak out against the ruling because of how it hurts Deaf people.