PUBLIC NOTICE
Federal Communications Commission
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DA 12-5
Released:  January 4, 2012
NOTICE OF CONDITIONAL GRANT OF APPLICATION OF HEALINC TELECOM, LLC FOR 
RECERTIFICATION AS A PROVIDER OF VIDEO RELAY SERVICE ELIGIBLE FOR COMPENSATION 
FROM THE INTERSTATE TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY SERVICES (TRS) FUND
CG DOCKET NO. 10-51
By the Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau:
On December 1, 2011, Healinc Telecom, LLC (Healinc) filed an application1 for Commission 
recertification2 as a provider of video relay service (VRS), and for Commission certification as a provider 
of Internet Protocol relay (IP Relay) service, that is eligible for compensation from the Interstate TRS 
Fund (Fund).3 For the reasons discussed below, the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau 
  
1 Healinc Telecom, LLC, Internet-Based TRS Certification Application, CG Docket No. 10-51 (filed Dec. 1, 2011) 
supplemented on December 28, 2011 (Healinc Recertification Application).  See 47 C.F.R. § 64.606; Structure and 
Practices of the Video Relay Service Program, CG Docket No. 10-51, Second Report and Order and Order, 26 FCC 
Rcd 10898 (2011) (iTRS Certification Order).
2 The Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (Bureau) initially granted Healinc certification for the provision 
of VRS on June 9, 2006, for five years, until June 9, 2011.  See Notice of Certification of Healinc Telecom, LLC as a 
Provider of Video Relay Service (VRS) Eligible for Compensation from the Interstate Telecommunications Relay 
Service (TRS) Fund, CG Docket No. 03-123, Public Notice, 21 FCC Rcd 6486 (rel. June 9, 2006).  The Bureau 
twice extended this certification period for Healinc and other affected providers, in order to maintain the status quo
while the Commission considered reform of the Internet-based certification process.  See Consumer and 
Governmental Affairs Bureau Announces Extension of Expiring Certifications for Providers of Internet-Based 
Telecommunications Relay Services, CG Docket Nos. 03-123 & 10-51, Public Notice, 26 FCC Rcd 6737 (2011) 
(extending expiring certifications to November 4, 2011); Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Extends 
Expiring Certifications for Certain Providers of Video Relay Service and IP Relay Service, CG Docket Nos. 03-123 
& 10-51, Public Notice, 26 FCC Rcd 15157 (2011) (extending expiring certifications to January 4, 2012). 
3 The Communications Act of 1934, as amended, defines telecommunications relay services (TRS) as:
. . .  telephone transmission services that provide the ability for an individual who is deaf, hard of 
hearing, deaf-blind, or who has a speech disability to engage in communication by wire or radio 
with one or more individuals, in a manner that is functionally equivalent to the ability of a hearing 
individual who does not have a speech disability to communicate using voice communication 
services by wire or radio. 
47 U.S.C. § 225(a)(3) (as amended by the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 
2010 (CVAA), Pub. L. No. 111-260, § 103(b), 124 Stat. 2751, 2755 (2010); Pub. L. No. 111-265 (technical 
amendments to CVAA)).  VRS is a form of Internet-based TRS (iTRS) that uses a broadband Internet connection 
between the VRS user and the communications assistant (CA) to enable a person using American Sign Language to 
communicate over video with another party through a CA.  During a VRS call, the CA relays the communications 
between the two parties, signing what the other party says to the deaf or hard of hearing user and responding in 
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(Bureau) hereby grants the Healinc Recertification Application on a conditional basis,4 pending 
inspection of Healinc’s facilities and confirmation of Healinc’s compliance with all applicable rules and 
orders, as well as our determination that Healinc is qualified to receive compensation from the Fund and 
that grant of full certification would be consistent with the objective of preventing waste, fraud, and abuse 
to the Fund, as embodied in our VRS rules and orders.
In the iTRS Certification Order released on July 28, 2011, the Commission amended its 
requirements and processes for certifying iTRS providers as eligible for compensation from the Fund, to 
ensure that iTRS providers receiving certification are qualified to provide iTRS in compliance with the 
Commission’s rules, and to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse through improved oversight of such 
providers.5 These new rules require that all iTRS providers obtain certification from the Commission to 
be eligible to receive compensation from the Fund.6 They further require that all VRS applicants for 
certification lease, license or own, as well as operate, essential facilities associated with iTRS call centers 
and employ their own CAs to staff those centers on the date of their application for certification.7 Each 
iTRS applicant for certification is also required to submit specific types of documentary evidence that 
demonstrate its compliance with Commission rules, including those adopted in the VRS Practices R&O.8  
On October 17, 2011, the Commission released the iTRS Certification Clarification Order,9 clarifying 
certain aspects of the certification requirements adopted in the iTRS Certification Order, and modifying 
section 64.606 of the Commission’s rules to lessen the burdens on applicants for certification associated 
with the submission of certain documentation to the Commission.10  
Based on our review of the Healinc Recertification Application, we grant conditional certification 
to Healinc to provide VRS services.  In the iTRS Certification Order, the Commission reserved the right, 
after initial review of an application, to conditionally grant certification subject to one or more subsequent 
     
voice to the other party to the call.  The Interstate TRS Fund compensates eligible providers of VRS and other forms 
of interstate TRS for their reasonable costs of providing these services.  See 47 C.F.R. § 64.604(c)(5)(iii).    
4 Healinc originally submitted an application for certification as a provider of IP Relay in 2008.  Healinc Telecom, 
LLC IP Certification Application, CG Docket No. 03-123 (Nov. 18, 2008).  This application remains pending.  
Healinc’s request for IP Relay certification was incorporated into its March 10, 2011 application for recertification, 
and is again incorporated into the Healinc Recertification Application under consideration here.  We will address 
Healinc’s pending application for IP Relay certification in a subsequent Public Notice.
5 iTRS Certification Order, 26 FCC Rcd at 10899, ¶ 1.  The measures adopted in the iTRS Certification Order were 
part of the Commission’s ongoing and transitional efforts to reform the structure and practices of the VRS program, 
and the new certification processes by which this grant of conditional certification is awarded may be superseded or 
modified by future Commission actions on VRS reform. 
6 Id. at ¶ 2.
7 Id.
8 See, e.g., 47 C.F.R. § 64.606(a); see also Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Service Program, Report and 
Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 26 FCC Rcd 5545 (2011) (VRS Practices R&O).  
9 Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Service Program, Sprint Nextel Corporation Expedited Petition for 
Clarification, Sorenson Communications, Inc. Petition for Reconsideration of Two Aspects of the Certification 
Order, AT&T Services, Inc. Petition for Reconsideration of AT&T, CG Docket No. 10-51, Memorandum Opinion 
and Order, Order, and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 26 FCC Rcd 14895 (2011) (iTRS Certification 
Clarification Order).
10 See id. at 14902-14904, ¶¶ 16-20.
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on-site visits to the applicant.11 The Commission noted that such visits would “better enable the 
Commission to verify the information provided in a certification application, and help us to better assess 
an applicant’s ability to provide service in compliance with our rules.”12 This grant of conditional 
certification is without prejudice to the Commission’s final determination of Healinc’s qualifications, and
is dependent on the Commission verifying the information provided in the Healinc Recertification 
Application, as supplemented, and on the veracity of the applicant’s representations that it will provide 
service in compliance with all pertinent Commission requirements.13  
To allow the Commission to make such a determination, we reserve the right to conduct one or 
more on-site inspections of Healinc’s facilities by designated personnel, and to request additional 
documentation relating to Healinc’s provision of VRS.  Ultimate conversion to full certification will be 
granted if, based on on-site visits and our review of such additional documentation, the Commission finds 
that Healinc is in compliance with the Commission’s rules and orders, including those rules designed to 
ensure the accuracy and integrity of Fund payments,14 and is qualified to receive compensation from the 
Fund for the provision of VRS.15 If at any time during the period in which Healinc is operating pursuant 
to this conditional certification, the Commission determines that Healinc has failed to provide sufficient 
supporting documentation for any of the assertions in Healinc’s application, or that any of those assertions 
cannot be supported, or finds evidence of any apparent rule violation, fraud, waste, or abuse, the 
Commission will take appropriate action, including the possible denial of the Healinc Recertification 
Application.  In the event of such denial, Healinc’s conditional certification will automatically terminate 
35 days after such denial.16 If, however, the Commission grants full certification, Healinc, like all VRS 
providers, must continue to operate in compliance with all relevant Commission rules and orders.
The Bureau specifically notes an inaccuracy in Healinc’s application.  Specifically, Healinc states 
in its application that its VRS platform coupled with its Emergency Routing System will be able to access 
certain information from “the Neustar Registered Location database.”17 We remind Healinc that 
providers do not obtain registered location information from the TRS Numbering Directory, which is 
maintained by its administrator, Neustar. The primary purpose of this Directory is to record the mapping 
of the North America Numbering Plan telephone number of each registered iTRS user to a unique 
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).18 We further remind Healinc that, because the TRS Numbering 
Directory does not maintain a list of registered location information for VRS users, Healinc must maintain 
its own database of such registered location information in order to comply with the numbering 
requirements. 
Redacted copies of the Healinc Recertification Application, including all supplements, are 
available for public inspection and copying during regular business hours at the FCC Reference 
  
11 47 C.F.R. § 64.606(a)(3); see also iTRS Certification Order, 26 FCC Rcd at 10914, ¶ 37.
12 iTRS Certification Order, 26 FCC Rcd at 10914, ¶ 36.
13 Id. at ¶ 37.
14 See 47 C.F.R. § 64.604(c)(5)(iii).
15 See iTRS Certification Order, 26 FCC Rcd at 10914, ¶ 37; 47 C.F.R. § 64.606(b)(2),(c)(2).
16 See iTRS Certification Order, 26 FCC Rcd at 10914-15, ¶ 37.  If the Commission terminates a conditional 
certification, the provider must give at least 30 days’ notice to its customers that it will no longer offer service.  
17 Healinc Application at 23.
18 See 47 C.F.R. § 64.613.
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Information Center, Portals II, 445 12th Street, SW, Suite CY-A257, Washington, DC 20554, (202) 418-
0270.  The full text of this Public Notice is similarly available for public inspection or copying.  These 
documents may also be purchased from the Commission’s duplicating contractor, Best Copy and Printing, 
Inc. (BCPI), Portals II, 445 12th Street, SW, Room CY-B402, Washington, DC 20554.  Customers may 
contact BCPI at its web site: www.bcpiweb.com, or by calling 1-800-378-3160.  Redacted copies of the 
Healinc Recertification Application and the supplements may also be found by searching on the 
Commission’s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs (insert CG 
Docket No. 10-51 into the Proceeding block).
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