All smartphones must have hearing aid compatibility
FCC Rules All Phones and Hearing Aids Must Work Together
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ruled that all smartphones will soon need to work with all Bluetooth hearing aids, and vice versa, so that people with hearing loss don't have to worry about compatibility issues.
FCC: All smartphones must have hearing aid compatibility
Addressing the disparities in assistive device access among the 48 million Americans with hearing loss, the FCC has ruled that all "mobile handsets" (read: smartphones) must be compatible with ...
FCC Requires All Mobile Phones to be Hearing Aid Compatible - Rules Include New Bluetooth Requirements to Ensure Universal Connectivity
FCC Requires All Mobile Phones to be Hearing Aid Compatible - Rules Include New Bluetooth Requirements to Ensure Universal Connectivity
FCC Requires That All Mobile Phones Must Be Compatible With Hearing Aids
But for the millions of Americans who also have hearing loss, there's now some good news relating to those omnipresent phones. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday adopted new rules ...
FCC: 100% of Mobile Phones Must Be Hearing Aid Compatible
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a new rule this week requiring all smartphones to be compatible with hearing aids. "100% of all mobile handsets—such as smartphones—must ...
The FCC basically just ordered Android OEMs to step up their hearing aid game
The FCC has mandated that every phone sold in the US must be compatible with hearing aids. The commission also requires both Android OEMs and Apple to abandon proprietary Bluetooth standards that could interfere with hearing aid compatibility.
All smartphones will have to be compatible with all Bluetooth hearing aids
The FCC has announced new requirements for all smartphones to be compatible with all Bluetooth hearing aids, and one
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