The FCC has released a public notice seeking comment on a petition for declaratory rulemaking filed by ITTA – The Voice of America’s Broadband Providers (ITTA). In its petition, ITTA asked the Commission, or its Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, to rule “that it is and always has been permissible for a carrier recovering Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) Fund contributions via an end user cost recovery fee line item (or the like) on customers’ bills to include TRS, among other references, in the line item description.” The Commission’s truth-in-billing rules necessitate that carriers label clear and non-misleading cost-recovery charges, but ITTA believes there still remains customer confusion “about the propriety of carriers listing TRS fees among other components in the description of an end user cost recovery fee.” Comments in response to ITTA’s petition are due on or before Monday, June 18, 2018 and reply comments are due on or before Tuesday, July 3, 2018.
