The Telecommunications Industry Association submitted comments to the Environmental Protection...
The Telecommunications Industry Association submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy on new Energy Star telephony testing requirements. The TIA asked the EPA and Energy to reconsider a proposal in the revised requirements that there…
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be a five-minute test interval. “Not all phone systems utilize a fixed charge cycle,” TIA Vice President for Government Affairs Danielle Coffey said in submitted comments. “For some products, the charge cycle is reset once the portable is removed from the charging cradle or base unit. The time that products spend charging depends on the time out of the charge cradle. Because of this, an accurate testing procedure will require some specific timings to avoid the case where the handset is out of the cradle an unspecified amount of time prior to the testing.” TIA also took issue with some terms and definitions used in the proposed revisions, noting that they are “unnecessary and/or create confusion as they do not match up with commonly used telecommunications industry terminology” (http://xrl.us/bnm3gz).