Tuesday, April 29,2008 @ 11:30am
AT&T intros hard-of-hearing plan for iPhone
The iPhone is now eligible for AT&T's Text Accessibility Plan, the company has announced. The TAP package is intended for deaf or hard-of-hearing customers, as a substitute for the phone's normal voice bundles. Customers are instead presented with unlimited SMS messaging, along with the iPhone's typical unlimited e-mail and web browsing. Visual Voicemail remains present, and voice calls can still be dialed out, albeit at a charge of $0.40 per minute.
The plan costs $40 per month; to qualify, customers must first subscribe to a regular iPhone data plan, and then submit an application to AT&T's National Center for Customers With Disabilities (NCCD). Once a person is accepted, TAP then replaces the normal iPhone rates.