Bluetooth enabled TTY?

GraysonPeddie said:
Agreed. I have problems with using my Ameriphone Q90-D with Motorola V710 and my cell phone will not stay in analog after hang up or 10 minutes of inactivity. Besides, why carry 2 devices?

What if you need to make a 911 emergency call if you don't have a TTY machine?
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I work for ALLTEL. The V710 and all newest phones in last few years WILL work with Q90 TTY in digital. Carrier is required by FCC to have have phones to work with TTY.. I have tested it and it does works. In some case, you may have to put the phone into "TTY" mode before using.

You will increasing have more difficult with analog now as no carriers has built any more new analog sites in last couple years and will be phasing out around by 2008.

Richard
 
javapride said:
yes you can u have to type in E911 and have ur GPRS turned on so they can find you via that
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Doesn't matter if it is "turned" on or off in your phone.. Any E911 supported phones automatically sends location data to 911 when you make 911 calls.
 
GraysonPeddie said:
Agreed. I have problems with using my Ameriphone Q90-D with Motorola V710 and my cell phone will not stay in analog after hang up or 10 minutes of inactivity. Besides, why carry 2 devices?

What if you need to make a 911 emergency call if you don't have a TTY machine?
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Well, Just using voice phone to call emergency and they will tracking your address.

It did happened to me, and its work.
 
Pacman said:
Well, Just using voice phone to call emergency and they will tracking your address.

It did happened to me, and its work.
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Did you make that 911 from your landline or cell phone? If lineline, then they already know the address.. If made from a mobile phone, they only can pinpoint based on what sector of cell sites for phase 1 E911.. Phase II E911 will let public safety dispatcher pinpoint you within 100 meters, not exact address of the house.
 
RichardDeaf said:
I work for ALLTEL. The V710 and all newest phones in last few years WILL work with Q90 TTY in digital. Carrier is required by FCC to have have phones to work with TTY.. I have tested it and it does works. In some case, you may have to put the phone into "TTY" mode before using.

You will increasing have more difficult with analog now as no carriers has built any more new analog sites in last couple years and will be phasing out around by 2008.

Richard
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Well I've just signed up for Vonage VoIP--though, not wireless... It'll be alright for me. I'm not sure what the analog/digital switch in my Q90-D TTY is in but I tried to switch between analog to digital to get my phone working with my TTY but it broke since I bought it last year like around October of 2005. I'd never thought the Q90-D will work with my Motorola V710, since my family signed up for Alltel around Febuary 2005.
 
Wireless E911 for Deaf

Dennis said:
The most viable solution? For a deaf person, today, the most viable way is to dial 911 and wait for rescue. If you have a VCO device like a Krown Portable TTY and your phone is TTY compatible, AND you can speak a little bit, then you can dial 911 and tell the emergency dispatcher to type back to you.
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No, that is NOT true. All 911 call centers are requires to be voice/tty/vco/hco. If you are Deaf and you do not speak, the 911 operator will announce, "911 please state your emergency. Hello? 911, please state your emergency." If the 911 operator hears no reponse, the 911 operator must begin typing with TTY, because the person may be Deaf. You can press spacebar on the TTY when you dial 911 again and again to alert the 911 operator, at the begining of the call, but you are not required to do so.

If you do not have a TTY, you can send a text message to ThatsHamilton in AIM, and tell the CA (Communications assistant) to call your number. (Do not use AIM. Use SMS to send a text message to AIM. You cannot use voice and data at the same time.) When the CA calls you, you can place a 3-way call to 911. If you can speak, but you cannot hear, you can use VCO (Voice-Carry-Over). If you can hear, but you cannot speak, you can use HCO (Hearing-Carry-Over). If you can neither hear nor speak, you can type, and the CA will type what the 911 operator says. It is very slow, but it works.
javapride said:
yes you can u have to type in E911 and have ur GPRS turned on so they can find you via that
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That's GPS (Global Positioning System). GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) is internet, on a cell phone.
 
Taric25 said:
No, that is NOT true. All 911 call centers are requires to be voice/tty/vco/hco. If you are Deaf and you do not speak, the 911 operator will announce, "911 please state your emergency. Hello? 911, please state your emergency." If the 911 operator hears no reponse, the 911 operator must begin typing with TTY, because the person may be Deaf. You can press spacebar on the TTY when you dial 911 again and again to alert the 911 operator, at the begining of the call, but you are not required to do so.

If you do not have a TTY, you can send a text message to ThatsHamilton in AIM, and tell the CA (Communications assistant) to call your number. (Do not use AIM. Use SMS to send a text message to AIM. You cannot use voice and data at the same time.) When the CA calls you, you can place a 3-way call to 911. If you can speak, but you cannot hear, you can use VCO (Voice-Carry-Over). If you can hear, but you cannot speak, you can use HCO (Hearing-Carry-Over). If you can neither hear nor speak, you can type, and the CA will type what the 911 operator says. It is very slow, but it works.
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Thanks for the answer. That's all I need to know to be aware of when making a 911 call. Yes I feel like really wanted to respond to 911 operator and even though I can speak but I'm not very good with pronounciation when speaking in timely fashion -- I had to speak a bit slow when trying to pronounce my words properly. I can hear, but can have trouble recognizing words -- even with hearing aids.

Sometime in the future, I think manufacturers really need to make cell phones with TTY capabilities built-in without two devices with or without wires. That way, I can have voice and data plan for a Pocket PC Phone (if the TTY capabilities can be built-in to it) and so I can get rid of my VoIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol) that's working well with my TTY.

I know I'm getting a bit off-topic but I've started a thread there which is related to my previous paragraph about TTY capabilities built-in to a Pocket PC that I can't have access to a cellular voicestream...:
Re: Pass sounds through the phone's modem over the cellular network (PPC Phone) - MSDN Forums
 
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