CLEARWATER, Fla. – Dec. 19, 2016 – PRLog — FCC Adopts Real-Time Text Services for Americans with Disabilities The Federal Communications Commission on Dec 15th, 2016 ruled that phone companies replace the currently used text telephone communications to now support real-time text to provide better technology and more reliable telephone communications for Americans who are deaf, hard of hearing, Deaf-blind or those with a speech disability.