Nokia Cellular Phones now compatible with hearing impaired device.TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 1996--Nokia Mobile Phones, Europe's largest manufacturer of cellular phones, today announced it has launched a program that will benefit the more than 30 million Americans with hearing impaired disabilities and enable them to use most Nokia cellular phones. Nokia said that cellular phones from its standard product line can now be used in conjunction with a HATIS HATIS Hearing Aid Telephone Interconnection System (Hearing Aid Telephone Interconnect System) adapter, a device that simply plugs into the headphone See headphones. jack of a compatible Nokia phone and allows those who are hearing impaired to make and receive cellular calls. HATIS works with any prescribed hearing aid that has a T-Coil and enables people with up to 99 percent hearing loss the use of wireless technology. HATIS is a boomerang-shaped device that sits comfortably behind the user's ear. Inside the earpiece is an induction coil See inductor. Induction coil A device for producing a high-voltage alternating current or high-voltage pulses from a low-voltage direct current. The largest modern use of the induction coil is in the ignition system of internal combustion engines, such as that activates the T-Coil, or telecommunications switch, in the hearing aid via an electronic signal. Because the hearing aid amplifies magnetic signals that have never passed through the air as sound waves, it produces distortion-free sound. "As a leader in the wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. industry, Nokia is committed to ensuring that all people have access to communications wherever and whenever they want," said Matt Wisk, director of marketing for Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. "The HATIS device opens up a new realm of safe, secure personal communications possibilities for the more than 30 million Americans who are hearing impaired." The HATIS device operates with Nokia's models 636, 638, 2120 and 2160 cellular phones. The HATIS device was developed in 1991 by Fountain, Colo.-based Phoenix Management owners Jo Waldron, who is profoundly deaf, and Shirley Crouch, who is hearing impaired. HATIS meets or exceeds the criteria and mandate requirements under all three federal acts on telecommunications: the Hearing Aid Compatibility Background The Hearing Aid Compatibility Act of 1988 (HAC Act) requires that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ensure that all telephones manufactured or imported for use in the United States after August 1989, and all “essential” telephones, are Act of 1988, the Telecommunications Act of 1982 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. civil-rights law, enacted 1990, that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. of 1990. Finland-based Nokia is an international telecommunications company with 1995 net sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight of $8.4 billion. The company is Europe's largest manufacturer of cellular telephone, and is a pioneer in digital switching and cellular telephone technology. Nokia shares trade on six stock exchanges throughout the world, including the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol NOKA. Nokia is the title sponsor of the Nokia Sugar Bowl college football classic held annually in New Orleans. CONTACT: Crescent Communications Bill Maguire, ext. 119 Michele Weakley, ext. 130 404-698-8650 404-698-8651, (fax) |
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