FCC Grants GSM Hearing Aid Extension
Sep 9, 2005, 2:32 PM by (staff)
The FCC today granted a one year extension to GSM carriers for hearing aid compatibility. There are currently technical issues that prevent hearing aids from working with phones while they are using GSM 850, however devices are compatible with GSM 1900. Cingular must still meet requirements previously set by the FCC and offer four handset that are hearing aid compatible (HAC) on GSM 1900 by September 16. Although they do not use GSM 850, T-Mobile did ask for a short two month extension in order to meet the FCC handset requirements.
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Why 850?
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The government also made 1900 available, but there are a limited number of licenses available in each band, for each area of the country. Nearly every license is owned by somebody, so...
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