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This equipment may not be used on telephone
provided by your telephone company. Connection
to party lines is subject to state tariffs. Contact
your state’s public utility commission, public
service commission or corporation commission for
more information.
This equipment includes automatic dialing capability.
When programming and/or making test calls to
emergency numbers:
• Remain on the line and briefly explain to the
dispatcher the reason for the call.
• Perform such activities in off-peak hours,
such as early morning or late evening.
FCC rules prohibit the use of non-hearing aid
compatible telephones in the following locations
or applications:
• All public or semipublic coin-operated or
credit card telephones.
• Elevators, highways, tunnels (automobile,
subway, railroad or pedestrian) where a
person with impaired hearing might be
isolated in an emergency.
• Places where telephones are specifically
installed to alert emergency authorities
such as fire, police or medical assistance
personnel.
• Hospital rooms, residential health care
facilities, convalescent homes and prisons.
• Workstations for the hearing impaired.
• Hotel, motel or apartment lobbies.
• Stores where telephones are used by patrons
to order merchandise.
• Public transportation terminals where telephones
are used to call taxis or to reserve lodging or
rental cars.
• In hotel and motel rooms as at least ten percent
of the rooms must contain hearing aid
compatible telephones or jacks for plug-in
hearing aid compatible telephones which will
be provided to hearing impaired customers
on request.
