The rule was announced on Oct. 17 following years of deliberation by the organization's Hearing Aid Compatibility Task Force, established after the FCC's 2016 mandate on improve hearing aid ...

The FCC has approved a regulation requiring 100% of all mobile handsets sold in the US to be compatible with hearing aids. The rule requires phone makers to abandon proprietary Bluetooth coupling ...

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Thursday issued rules requiring that all mobile phones — including smartphones — sold in the U.S. be compatible with hearing aids. The news comes ...

The FCC has adopted new rules that will require 100% of cell phones sold in the US to be hearing-aid compatible (HAC). The FCC is also modifying its rules to incorporate Bluetooth connections to ...

companies will also have to revise product labeling to include information about hearing aid compatibility, telecoil or Bluetooth coupling requirements, and conversation gain — how high a phone ...

Apple announced a hearing aids functionality for the AirPods Pro 2 in June 2024, the most recent big move for accessibility in the industry. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration quickly approved the ...

This means phones and hearing aids -- even the over-the-counter and earpods options -- must be compatible with each other. And all new mobile handsets sold in the US must now meet volume-control ...

Phone makers must also clearly label devices to clarify if they meet all these rules: Hearing aid compatible, universal Bluetooth pairing, and volume control benchmarks, including how high the ...