GoAmerica(R) and AT&T to Demonstrate Fast, Effective 10-Digit Interoperability Between Video Relay... ( Demo Showcases That Yesterday's ...)

GoAmerica(R) and AT&T to Demonstrate Fast, Effective 10-Digit Interoperability Between Video Relay Providers

Date:6/25/2008

Demo Showcases That Yesterday's FCC Mandate is Quick to Implement

ROCKLIN, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GoAmerica, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOAM), a provider of relay and wireless communications and professional interpreter services for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech-disabled persons, and AT&T today announced they would become the first companies to demonstrate a live point-to-point video call through a 10-digit numbering system described in the FCC ruling issued yesterday.

The demonstration, to occur at the National Association of the Deaf headquarters in Silver Spring, MD, will exhibit a technology solution that is relatively inexpensive and quick to implement for any relay provider.

"Delivering 10-digit numbering is a critical step in providing relay users with functionally equivalent calling services and essential emergency calling (e911) access which together have thus far been denied to online relay users," said Kelby Brick, vice president of regulatory and strategic policy for GoAmerica, which provides relay services under the Hands On VRS(R), i711.com(R), and IP-Relay(TM) brands. "We applaud the FCC ruling which demonstrates a commitment to ensure that relay users will enjoy the same level of accessibility and safety that hearing users have had for years."

"A hundred years ago the U.S. concluded that telephone networks for hearing persons should be interconnected to ensure easy calling between telephone users, regardless of their chosen telephone network," said David Huntley, Senior Vice President of Customer Information Services at AT&T. "In the same way -- and for the first time -- relay providers are agreeing to interconnect their networks, effectively advancing the same convenience for deaf an
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