What happened next?
- December 1997 FCC extends deadline until October 1, 1998
- September 1998 FCC extends deadline until mid-November 1998
- November 1998 FCC extends deadline until end of December 1998
- December 1998 FCC issues indefinite waivers in response to more than 100 individual company petitions
- January 1999 Lucent Technologies has TTY compatibility solution
- May 1999 FCC extends deadline until end of December 2001
- December 2000 FCC sets final deadline: June 30, 2002.
- June 30, 2002 Deadline is met.
- 2002-present Deaf community discards TTYs for pagers
Long Term solution never achieved.