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FCC REGISTRATION INFORMATION – CONTINUED
HEARING AID COMPATIBILITY INFORMATION
This telephone is not compatible with inductively coupled hearing aids.
FCC rules prohibit the use of non-hearing aid-compatible telephones in the following locations or
applications;
1.
All public or semipublic coin-operated or credit card telephones.
2.
Elevators, highways and tunnels (automobile, subway, railroad or pedestrian) where a person with impaired
might be isolated in an emergency.
3.
Places where telephones are specifically installed to alert emergency authorities such as fire, police or
medical assistance personel.
4.
Hospital rooms, residential health care facilites, convalescent homes and prisons.
5.
Workstations for hearing impaired personnel.
6.
Hotel, motel, apartment lobbies, ins stores where telephones are used by patrons to order merchandise, in
public transportation terminals where telephones are used to call taxis or to reserve lodging or rental
automobiles.
7.
Hotel and motel rooms. (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 upon request).
