Originally Posted by TechBill

You misunderstood.

We know VP always will use ip addressing system and need to be linked into a Sorenson server to be able to contact you. But with the new upcoming system we can have a real phone number linked into our ip addressing system via relay service only.

So we can give out just 1 number to any hearing people we want and when they call this real phone number it will go to a relay service of our choosing or relay service we pick we want to use then the relay service system will bring up a list of options to contact you if it AIM or VP or Email etc.

But the old way - We get a real number and we are stuck with this relay service who provide us the real number.

New way - We get a real number and we keep it for lifetime even if we change relay service example we got real number from Sorenson but not happy with Sorenson so we want to switch to ipRelay and then Sorenson have to give up the number and let ipRelay take it over for us to the new FCC rule.


With real number we *still* have to use relay service but no more "800" relay number then hearing people have to tell relay service our VP number or ip address to contact us and 90 percent of hearing people don't want to deal with this hassle of dailing and telling another number.

Now hearing people dial a real number which contact to relay and relay already know which deaf person real number belong to instant on thier computer screen.

I been using ipRelay for over a year with a real number from them and it works very good. All hearing people try to contact me but if I am not at AIM or VP etc then they leave a message which is sent to me via email just like a hearing people answering machine. New FCC rules will greatly improve this and allowing more freedom with the real number instead of limiting you.


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