CTIA Seeks Changes to Draft Hearing-Aid Compatibility NPRM
CTIA sought tweaks to an FCC draft NPRM that tentatively concludes that a 100% hearing-aid compatibility requirement is “achievable,” set for a commissioner vote on Dec. 13 (see 2311220047). CTIA urged the FCC to adopt the compliance timeline in last…
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year’s HAC Task Force Report (see 2212160063), which provides four years for manufacturers and five years for service providers for compliance from the effective date of the new rules. “Industry has achieved upwards of 90% HAC-rated handsets under the 2011 ANSI Standard and achieving those last few percentages of HAC-rated handsets under the new 2019 Standard will be much harder than the preceding 90%,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 23-388.