Reply With QuoteThe article says "proposed". Gee, sounds pretty stiff, 50% and 33%?
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http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=10237
Today, 10:25 AM by Eric M. Zeman
The Federal Communications Commission today proposed that T-Mobile USA forfeit the amount of $819,000 for "willfully and repeatedly" failing to comply with rules mandating each carrier offer a certain number of hearing-aid compatible handsets. According to the FCC, T-Mobile violated the rules during 2009 and 2010. These hearing aid compatibility requirements make sure consumers with hearing loss have access to advanced telecommunications services. The minimum number of HAC phones required to be offered by Tier 1 carriers has evolved over the years, but at the moment 10 handsets or at least 50% of a carriers' breadth of devices must offer an M3 acoustic coupling, and 7 handsets or at least 33% must offer a T3 inductive coupling. T-Mobile USA is allowed to reduce or negate the proposed forfeiture by proving to the FCC that it didn't violate the rules, or that it didn't violate them as severely as the FCC alleges.
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The article says "proposed". Gee, sounds pretty stiff, 50% and 33%?
I've got more phones than fingers
Shouldn't all phones be hearing-aid compatible?
OTOH, for people who are dead or close to deaf, T-Mobile has the 5GB/$30 plan that's cheap and is data and text centric. Overall, smartphones and text messaging are the best things that have happened in mobile for hard of hearing or deaf people.
I usually support government regulation, but It is unfortunate that the government over-regulated and killed the AT&T/ T-Mobile Merger
The best explanation of the pricing nutiness in the industry.
Why Sprint and T-Mo will always suck.
The only way to end the pricing insanity is to eliminate contracts and subsidies.
I want Wifi calling on AT&T.
If you text while driving, you're an idiot. End of story.
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Dead?!Originally Posted by GSMinCT
or "deaf"
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Something comes in my mind: Isn't the responsibility that the phone manufacturers to have device hearing aid compatible, and not the cellular services?!
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AT&T, T-Mobile and gang are the ones who write the specs for these things, with the exception of Apple.
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