The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-41.3 Engineering Committee on Analog and Digital Wireline Terminals has issued a call for interest for a new project to revise TIA-1083-A to become TIA-1083-B initially titled “Telecommunications – Telephone Terminal Equipment – Handset Magnetic Measurement Procedures and Performance Requirements”
TR-41.3 is revising its standard that defines measurement procedures and performance requirements for the handset generated audio band magnetic signal requirements and limitations on the magnetic noise levels of wireline telephones. The Standard can be used to evaluate handset telephones with both analog and digital network interfaces. Examples include, but are not limited to: corded and cordless telephones, ISDN telephones, digital proprietary telephones, VoIP telephones, softphones running on personal computers, IEEE 802.11 telephones, USB telephony devices, DECT telephones, and Bluetooth® telephony devices. The new revision TIA-1083-B of the standard will add requirements for wideband audio performance as well as requirements to allow the use of real speech signals instead of sine waves for frequency response measurements.
The stakeholders may include, but are not limited to: Telephone suppliers and distributors, the VA, people with hearing loss who use the T-coil mode of their hearing aid or cochlear implant when talking on the telephone, hearing aid and cochlear implant manufacturers, audiologists and hearing aid dispensers, telephone manufacturers, hearing loss advocacy groups, state telephone equipment distribution programs for people with hearing loss.
TIA is actively seeking participation in these projects from the user and general interest communities.
To inquire about participating in TIA standards developing efforts, please contact the TIA Technology & Standards Department at 703-907-7000 or via e-mail at standards@tiaonline.org.
