Think about it...
Think how much money VRS are earning per minute. Roughly $7.25. Depending on tier and how many minutes they get per month.
If a deaf using VRS for full 1 hour (aka 60 minutes). Let look how much they profit in one hour. 60 x $7.25 = $435 an hour. But that does not stop there. If 100 deaf called in one hour span and each did 20 minutes.
100 x 20 minutes = 200 minutes, then 200 x $7.25 =$1,450.00 an hour. Just 100 deaf vrs user in 1 hour. If the it peaks from 8am - 7pm (11 hours).
That means they earn $15,950 in 11 hours. I did not include the off - peak hours. Let say its spread out each day to justify the number.
30 days in a month x $15,950 = $478,500 a month. A year - $5,821,750.
Obviously my calculation are not accurate because they are raking more than $5.8 millions a year from FCC.
They got money to cover interpreter wages, call center, lease office, business expenses for expos, sponsorship, etc... And still have plenty leftover to spend on research development.
I dont know how HOVRS did it. Still have to Kudo to them for effort to develop MVP.
also Kudo to Viable for attempt to make Vpad.
Kudo to Snapvrs for owning network on OJO.
Kudo to CSDVRS for coming out with Z products.
Kudo to Sorenson for greatest invention of videophone concept.
Dont forget Sorenson as 2007, they had 80% market share. They have maybe 200-300 millions as year, or more from FCC.
yikes!