This has been suggested by both the telecom industry and by many deaf consumers.

One Big Issue

• • TTY is only thing that works on analog phone lines. (IPtext does not)

    • Until everyone is VoIP  -- including rural and low income  --TTY will be around.

However, on IP networks

• • IP text has so many advantages that it should be standardized on and should be only form of text on IP networks

    • Change TTY to IPtext at the boundaries