IP Captioned Phone Service: Costs and Benefits

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Background
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls. A communications assistant (CA) relays the call back and forth between the person with a hearing or speech disability and a voice telephone user. For example, a person with a hearing disability can communicate in text with the CA, while the CA communicates by voice with the other party to the call. The CA repeats in voice what the user has typed, and types to the TRS user what the voice telephone user has said.

There are several types of TRS that consumers can use depending on the nature of the disability and whether they have some hearing and can speak. TRS types include traditional TRS, which uses a text telephone or TTY device and a telephone line, Speech-to-Speech (STS), and Captioned Telephone Service, as well as forms of TRS that use the Internet, specifically Internet Protocol (IP) Relay, and Video Relay Service (VRS). IP Captioned Telephone Service is one of the newest forms of TRS. For a description of the various types of TRS, see FCC’s consumer fact sheet at www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/trs.html.
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Still Getting Harassing Calls? Here’s Something You Can Do!

Often times the source of the harassing or obscene calls will show the phone number as unlisted, unpublished, non published, anonymous or private. What is the difference between the phone number labels of unlisted, unpublished, non published, private or anonymous? Nothing.

All the above labels essentially mean the same thing.

Still, continuous, secretive, obscene or harassing phone calls can be very scary and stressful. Even if calls are not threatening they can be of great inconvenience. However, there are various options available to you to put an end to these calls. In most cases, simply uncloaking the individual is enough to bring your problems to swift and successful resolutions.
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Analog-to-Digital Transition for Wireless Telephone Service

The Analog Cellular Sunset and Who Is Affected
As of midnight on February 18, 2008, cellular telephone companies will not be required to provide analog service. While most wireless telephone users will not be affected by this transition (often called the “analog cellular sunset”), some users may be affected. In addition, the transition could affect some alarm systems and some users of OnStar in-vehicle communications service.

You will not be affected by the transition if you:

- use a digital handset; or

- subscribe to wireless service from Sprint/Nextel or T-Mobile.

- You may be affected by the transition if you:

- use an analog-only handset (there are very few of these left in service); and
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Junk Faxes: According to the FCC

Some of you might wonder what junk faxes have to do with a site devoted to cell phone lookups, but let’s not forget that there are several different things that can be accomplished over telephone lines — one of which is sending unsolicited faxes to unsuspecting individuals. That’s where this post comes in. I’ve written about this in a previous post, but for now, I’d just like to ask you a few questions.

Do you hate answering the phone or voicemail and hearing a fax tone? Do you hate getting disturbed at 5am (or all night) by fax calls (even if you don’t even have a fax machine)? Do you hate having your ink, paper, and fax machine being used by people who are breaking the law? Do you want to put a stop to this? Keep reading.

The Federal law passed in 1991 known as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) makes it illegal to send any material transmitted via facsimile that advertises the commercial availability or quality of any property, goods, or services that is transmitted to any person without that person’s prior express invitation or permission.

So, if they send you COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING by fax without your prior consent, they may be liable. Political statements and fundraising faxes are treated differently (go figure).

If the fax was deliberately sent to you (as most junk faxes are), federal law entitles you to recover a minimum of $500 and, depending the judge’s discretion, up to $1,500 for each such fax that you receive. Many people get $2,500 per fax in small claims court (also see TCPA Law for briefs and research that win legal cases).

Background
The TCPA and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules generally prohibit most unsolicited facsimile (fax) advertisements. In addition, the Junk Fax Prevention Act, passed by Congress in 2005, directs the FCC to amend its rules adopted pursuant to the TCPA regarding fax advertising. The FCC’s revised rules: (1) codify an established business relationship (EBR) exemption to the prohibition on sending unsolicited fax advertisements; (2) define EBR for unsolicited fax advertisements; (3) require the sender of fax advertisements to provide specified notice and contact information on the fax that allows recipients to “opt-out” of any future faxes from the sender; and (4) specify the circumstances under which a request to “opt-out” complies with the Act.
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The Real Deal On A Charge Free Reverse Cell Catalog

Charge free reverse cell phone number lookup catalog: Deal or No Deal?

Free Reverse Cell Phone number lookup: Anonymous phone calls are relatively common circumstance. You might, for instance, admit ignored a designate from an unidentified number. Now if you could only find the number and match it to a name, which might lead you to ask: Is there a catch to charge free reverse cell catalog?

Really what is a reverse phone number research? A reverse lookup is where you find out intimate data regarding the number that keeps showing up in your caller id - the owner, location, the address, the carrier. It at the same time tells you if the calling number is a cellular phone or a landline.

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