Digital cell phones used to garble TTY.

  • Several reasons:

    • TTY doesn’t behave like voice – switches between two frequencies very quickly

    • Small transmission errors make large error rates in TTY.

  • FCC ordered the industry to fix the problem so that deaf people can call 9-1-1 while mobile

  • Problem fixed as of 2002. (Some bugs may remain.)

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