1. TASA Advisory Committee
Presentation to the
TASA Advisory Committee
Florida Public Service Commission Staff
April 24, 2019

2. AGENDA TASA Meeting - April 24, 2019
1:30 – 1:45 Reading of the Meeting Notice – Kathryn Cowdery Meeting Notes – Curtis Williams Participant Appearances 1:45 – 2:15 PSC and FCC Updates - Curtis Williams and Jeff Bates 2:15 – 2:45 FTRI Fiscal Year 2019/2020 Proposed Budget - James Forstall 2:45 – 3:00 Break (if needed) 3:00 – 3:30 Sprint Relay Update – Jeff Branch 3:30 – 4:00 Open Discussion/Adjourn
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3. Meeting Notes
If you are participating by phone, please keep your phone on mute until you are ready to speak
Please silence your mobile devices during today’s meeting
Please make sure your microphone is on when speaking…the green light should be on
Please state your name before speaking so we know who is making comments for the record
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4. TASA Committee Members
Tom D’Angelo
Florida Association of the Deaf, Inc.
128 Bay Bridge Drive
St. Augustine Beach, FL 32080
(904) (Voice)
Debbe Hagner 8121 Braddock Circle Unit 6
Port Richey, FL 34668
(727) (Text)
(727) (Voice)
Margaret (Peggy) Brown
Regional Executive Director
Center for Hearing and Communication
2900 West Cypress Creek Blvd,
Suite 3
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
(954) , Ext. 301 (Office)
(954) (Cell)
Rick Kottler
Executive Director
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services
Of the Treasure Coast, Inc.
1016 NE Jensen Beach Blvd.
Jensen Beach, FL 34957
(772) (Voice)
Cheryl Rhodes Florida Deaf/Blind Association 500 Northfield Lane The Villages, FL (352) (VP & Voice)
Maryrose Sirianni
BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., d/b/a AT&T Florida 150 South Monroe Street Suite 400 Tallahassee, Florida (850) (Voice)
Timothy D. Wata
12514 Cragside Lane
Windermere, FL 34786
(407) (Voice)
Margaret Lynn Duggar 1018 Thomasville Road, Suite 110 Tallahassee, FL (850) (Voice)
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5. PSC Contacts TASA Meeting - April 24, 2019
Curtis Williams, Regulatory Analyst IV
Office of Industry Development and Market Analysis (850) (Voice)
Jeff Bates, Research Associate
Office of Industry Development and Market Analysis
(850) (Voice)
Kathryn Cowdery, Senior Attorney
Office of the General Counsel (850) (Voice)
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6. PSC & FCC Updates since October 25, 2018 TASA Meeting
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7. PSC Update
December 2018 – The PSC published the 2018 Relay Report on its website located at:
March 1, 2019 – FTRI filed its Fiscal Year 2019/2020 Proposed Budget with the PSC
May 30, 2019 – PSC staff scheduled to file recommendation on the proposed budget
June 11, 2019 – Agenda Conference for Commissioners to consider staff recommendation
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8. FCC Update
CSDVRS, LLC d/b/a ZVRS and Purple Communications, Inc. Limited Waiver On October 31, 2018, the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau issued Order DA granting CSDVRS, LLC d/b/a ZVRS and Purple Communications, Inc. a limited waiver of the expiration date for the at-home video relay service (VRS) call handling pilot program to April 30, 2019 Under the program, authorized VRS providers may be compensated for calls handled by communications assistants at-home workstations The pilot program was initially intended to run from November 1, 2017 to October 31, 2018
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9. Request to Establish New Rulemaking Methodology for IP Relay Service Public Notice DA 18-1137
In its Public Notice issued in DA and released November 7, 2018, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau sought comment on the petition for rulemaking filed by Sprint Corporation on November 1, 2018 Sprint seeks to establish a new ratemaking methodology for IP Relay service because the current three-year price-cap period for IP Relay service expires at the end of the TRS Fund Year, ending September 30, 2019 Sprint proposed a hybrid rate methodology to set future rates for IP Relay service, based on a combination of the Multistate Average Rate Structure and provider costs
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10. Sprint sought interim waivers of the FCC’s rules to permit Sprint to:
Comments Sought For Sprint Request for Interim Waivers to Recover Costs of IP Relay Service – Public Notice DA
On March 21, 2019, Sprint Corporation filed a request for interim waivers to recover costs for IP Relay Service. Sprint argues that granting the waivers will ensure its ability to continue providing IP Relay service pending adoption of a longer-term compensatory rate methodology
Sprint sought interim waivers of the FCC’s rules to permit Sprint to:
Be compensated for costs incurred for outreach, indirect overhead, and research and development, and
Receive a reasonable operating margin
Increase the IP Relay compensation rate to $1.85 per minute for the TRS Fund Year
Comments were due by April 8, 2019 and rebuttal comments were due by April 15, 2019
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11. Report and Order, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and Order FCC 19-11, Released February 15, 2019
On February 15, 2019, the FCC released its Report and Order, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and Order (FCC 19-11) to improve Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS), enhance IP CTS program management, and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse
Public Notice DA , released by the FCC on March 20, 2019, noted that:
On March 8, 2019, a summary of the Report and Order was published in the Federal Register and the adopted rules went into effect April 8, 2019
On March 14, 2019, a summary of the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) was published in the Federal Register. Comments related to the FNPRM were to be filed on or before April 15, 2019, and reply comments must be filed on or before April 29, 2019
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12. Questions or Comments?
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