WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Communications Commission issued two regulations meant to tackle misuse of government-funded communication services used by the hearing and speech-impaired.

A federally subsidized telephone service uses the Internet to link deaf and hearing callers, but the service is plagued by pranksters and outright fraud. Even businesses are getting scammed. For ...

TRS enables individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind or have difficulty speaking to communicate with friends, family members and businesses over the phone. Traditional TRS call types ...

America Online Inc. on Thursday launched AIM Relay Services, which allow users who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech disabled to connect to a telecommunications relay service and place relay ...

Associate Communications Minister David Cunliffe and Disability Issues Minister Ruth Dyson today announced the release of the proposed service description for the Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS ...

Birmingham-area merchants are being targeted by scam artists using a new Internet-age twist on an old scheme, according to merchants and a credit card processing company. Scam artists are trying to ...

Communications Minister David Cunliffe and Disability Issues Minister Ruth Dyson have called for comment on the draft recommendations of the stakeholder review of the Telecommunications Relay Service.

The Federal Communications Commission is warning businesses that people posing as hearing-impaired consumers have been misusing the Internet-based telecommunications relay service (TRS) to commit ...

Sprint Hawaii is scheduled to open Hawaii's first telecommunications relay center Thursday to handle calls for the deaf, hard of hearing and speech disabled. Nonprofit CSD Communications was hired by ...

At 24, Davelis Goutoufas wished he didn't have to rely on his mother to make his phone calls. But for Goutoufas, who has been deaf since early childhood, a family member's help was a necessity if he ...

Marylanders will pay four pennies more on their monthly phone bills starting Oct. 1 for a state service that has become the most popular of its kind linking those who hear with those who can’t. All ...