Video Relay Service Partial Compensation Rate Freeze Order

In this Report and Order the Federal Communications Commission provides limited compensation rate relief for video relay service (VRS) providers with 500,000 or fewer monthly minutes (smallest VRS providers). Specifically, it grants the smallest VRS providers limited relief, on a retrospective and going-forward basis, from certain Tier I compensation rate adjustments adopted in the VRS Reform Order. For the 16-month period beginning July 1, 2015, and ending October 31, 2016, the FCC directs the administrator of the Interstate Telecommunications Relay Services Fund (TRS Fund) to pay compensation to such providers at a rate of $5.29 per minute. For the period from November 1, 2016, to April 30, 2017, the FCC directs the administrator of the TRS Fund to pay compensation to such providers at a rate of $5.06 per minute. For the period from May 1 to June 30, 2017, we direct the administrator of the ITRS Fund to pay compensation to such providers at a rate of $4.82 per minute.