HAC Task Force Members Urge Approval of Waiver
Representatives from the ATIS Hearing Aid Compatibility Task Force met with FCC staff urging action on an agency waiver sought by the group (see 2304060053). “The HAC Task Force representatives highlighted the unanimous record support for the Waiver Request and…
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discussed various technical details related to the consensus interim testing standard,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 15-285. They spoke with staff from the Consumer and Governmental Affairs and Wireless bureaus and Office of Engineering and Technology. The task force members said three areas of the Telecommunications Industry Association 5050 standard need further consideration: “(i) receive distortion and noise performance; (ii) acoustic frequency response; and (iii) consideration of codecs with speech bandwidth exceeding 50-7000 Hz.” They said “addressing the issues in the TIA 5050 standard will take some time, and TIA is already working to address these issues.”