Specifications

NOTICE
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Basic TRIMLINE Telephone Only
The
basic
TRIMLINE telephone is NOT
compatible
with inductively
coupled hearing aids.
Federal Communications Commission Rules
prohibit
the use of
non-hearing aid compatible
telephones in the following locations or
applications:
1. All
public
or
semi-public coin-operated
or credit card telephones.
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2. Places
where
a
person
with impaired hearing might be isolated
in
an
emergency,
including elevators, automobile,
railroad, or
subway
tunnels,
highways
and all areas of
the workplace-both common
areas
(for
example, libraries, reception areas,
and
other
areas where
employees are reasonably expected
to
congregate)
and non-common
areas
(for
example, individual employee
work stations regardless of
whether or not the occupants are
hearing impaired).
With
respect to non-comm0n areas of
the workplace, telephones are
not required to be
hearing
aid compatible
until May 1,
1993 for estab-
lishments
with 20
or
more
employees
and until
May 1, 1994 for
establishments
with fewer than
20
employees,
unless replaced
prior
to that
time.
3.
Telephones
specifically
installed to alert emergency authorities
such
as f ire,
police,
or medical
personnel.
*
4. Hospital rooms,
residential
health care
facilities, convalescent homes,
and
prisons.
lf
an alternative
means of signaling emergency situa-
tions is available, a hearing aid compatible
telephone is not required
until
May 1, 1993 for
establishments
with 20 or more employees or
until
May 1, 1994 for establishments with
fewer than 20
employees,
unless replaced
prior
to that
time.
*
5.
Hotel and motel
rooms.
Until
May 1, 1993 for establishments
with 20
or
more employees and until May
1
,
'1994
for establishments with
fewerthan
20
employees, at
least 10
percent
ofthe rooms
must con-
tain hearing aid compatible telephones or
contain
iacks
for
plug-in
hearing aid telephones
which will be
provided
to
hearing-impaired
customers
upon request.
After
May 1
,
1993 for establishments with
20
or
more
employees
or
after
May 1, 1994 for establishments
with 20 or fewer employees, all
telephones
in
hotel and
motel rooms must be
hearing
aid compatible.
6. Closed circuit
telephones not
connected
to the
public
telephone
net-
work-for example, telephones in apartment
and hotel lobbies, in
stores used to order
merchandise, in
public
transportation
terminals
to
call
taxis or automobile rental companies-need
not be hearing aid
compatible
until replaced,
*
Note: 0n
Apri\13,1993, the FederalCommunications Commission
sus-
pended
until
further notice
enforcement
of
its
rules
requiring
replacement of existing telephones
which are not hearing aid
compatible by May 1, 1993 or
May 1, 1994, depending on
the number
of employees
involved. All other
hearing
aid
compatibility requirements
remain in effect.
Note: lf
you
obtained
this telephone for use in one of the above
loca-
tions or applications,
please
clntact us
at 1 800 555-81 1 1
and we will be happy
to recommend and ship to
you
anzther
modelthat is hearing aid compatible.
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