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RCR Wireless News, March, 2003
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
With nearly 140 million mobile phones in use and a growing threat to landline telephone utilities, the cellular industry could be forced to shoulder greater responsibility to ensure that millions of disabled people have access to a wireless technology that has become a mainstay in American society.
The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to soon make one of its biggest disability decisions in years. According to sources, the Republican-led FCC is seriously considering how a mandate requiring hearing-aid compatibility for digital mobile phones can be implemented.
Sources say federal regulators do not believe market forces will solve the problem, an argument the mobile-phone industry has made since the...
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