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``` [This issue is currently being fought in San Diego. The local phone company recently attempted to pack a city council hearing on the subject by showing up early to reserve every single spectator seat in the hearing chamber for people it then brought in by bus. Their opponents were less well-funded, and drew on volunteers from sororities and the like. The phone company people said that the opponents were actually funded by the phone company's competitors, and this is not totally implausible. The city council was disgusted with the whole thing and voted 8-1 to study the matter further.]

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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 14:16:35 GMT From: stgeorge@USA.PIPELINE.COM To: Multiple recipients of list DEAF-L Subject: CPS 1900 static - a LTR for your local newspaper

Please consider sending your own variation of this letter it to your local newspaper before PCS 1900 digital phones end up causing disruption to your aids when you are a bystander and make it impossible for you to use an ALD.

Please post this on every list that you know of people who care about this issue.

Thanks.

Dear Editor,

If you have a hearing loss and wear an expensive hearing aid, new digital pagers and digital phones used by others cause loud static that makes your aid useless.

Worse yet, you can no longer use an Assistive Listening Device when digital communications are in use next to you because of static and noise. As far as using a digital phone yourself, forget it. It is like trying to hear and talk standing next to a leaf blower.

Twenty-five million Americans have a hearing loss. Digital communications that produces severe static robs these people of the ability to rely on their aids. Worse yet, it exposes them to chaotic disruption, physical pain, distress and the risk of physical injury, by the random, unexpected and startling blasts of loud noise they cannot escape.

Cellular phones that cause noise pollution should not be allowed to ruin anyone's ability to hear when other technology is available that does not cause noise pollution.

A full study is now underway by the FTC. Everyone who wears hearing aids should write the Federal Trade Commission, attention digital phones/hearing aids, Washington, D.C. 20015 and make their voice heard. ```

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