AT A GLANCE Ultratec joined the nationwide recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The 1990 law opened business, civic, and social life to millions of people with disabilities. The ADA requires telecommunications services to be functionally equivalent for people who… Read More »Ultratec Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act
AT A GLANCE CapTel is featured on The Profile Series, an award winning Discovery Channel program about technology. Host Lou Gossett Jr. presents CapTel users and audiologists on how it helps people with hearing loss. The episode aired May 26, 2010, so viewers were pointed… Read More »CapTel Featured on Discovery Channel Program
AT A GLANCE TDI named Ultratec engineering vice president Kevin Colwell winner of the 2009 Andrew Saks Engineering Award. The award recognized his innovations improving communication for people with hearing loss. His work spans early Baudot TTY technology through today’s captioned telephone development. The national… Read More »TDI Honors Ultratec Engineer
Ultratec, Inc. today announced the new CapTel 800i telephone – the latest addition to the company’s Captioned Telephone line of products and services that help people with hearing loss use the phone. Designed specifically for use with high-speed Internet service, the CapTel 800i gives people… Read More »Ultratec Announces New IP-Based Captioned Telephone Option
AT A GLANCE New area codes are rolling out as states run out of available phone numbers. CapTel users should follow the dialing guidelines their state sets when new codes arrive. In states like Connecticut, that can mean dialing the full ten digit number for… Read More »New Area Codes: How they Affect Your CapTel
AT A GLANCE Wall Street Journal columnist Melinda Beck spotlighted CapTel as one of the niftiest advances in telephone technology. Her health column recommended CapTel and WebCapTel to readers with hearing loss. The mention appeared in the newspaper’s September 16 issue. Noted Wall Street Journal… Read More »CapTel featured in Wall Street Journal
AT A GLANCE The FCC approved Internet based captioned telephone service for funding through the Interstate TRS Fund. The ruling lets people who struggle to hear on the phone receive written captions of calls over the Internet. Commissioners called the technology a major step forward… Read More »FCC Approves IP Captioned Telephone Service
AT A GLANCE CapTel opened its second Wisconsin call center in downtown Milwaukee with a mayoral ribbon cutting. The center was expected to employ several hundred people over five years. CapTel shows text captions during calls so people who are deaf or hard of hearing… Read More »CapTel Opens New Call Center in Milwaukee
AT A GLANCE Helen Rizzi of Eau Claire, Wisconsin regained full independence placing and receiving her own phone calls with CapTel. Before CapTel, progressive hearing loss meant relying on friends and even strangers to help with calls. She uses CapTel captions on every call, even… Read More »Independence is Everything – CapTel user enjoys telephone calls on her own terms
