Aug 12 2003

A new technology to appease the FCC opens a world of voice communication to those with impaired hearing.

Yesterday's FCC order requires all US national wireless carriers to make at least 25% of all their handsets to be hearing aid-compatible within two years, while also meeting equality requirements set by various other pieces of US legislation.

As over 560 million people worldwide suffer some form of hearing loss, the need for a revolutionary technology presented itself, according to Able Planet, manufacturer of the new Micro-Technology that claims to offer a solution to this problem.

The technology works through the hands-free set of the phone rather than the handset itself, although as the patent-pending system is just 1mm in size, it has applications in laptops, mp3 players and so on.

A major US hotel group, Hyatt Hotel Corporation, has already volunteered to adopt the technology.

For those with hearing aids, the technology can be used by adjusting the hearing aid to 'T', while for those without hearing loss they will never know the technology was in place.

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