Thought this message would be of interest to some, and encouraging too.
da
>
>from Remarks by William E. Kennard, Chairman Federal Communications
Commission
>to WIRELESS 98, Atlanta, Ga. February 23, 1998
>
>.. "Membership in the club also means service to the disabled community. Two
>years ago Congress required that you provide them access. How do we do it?
The
>best way is to consider access issues at the front end -- during the
>development and design process. It is an area where the truly innovative can
>help the disabled -- and create a lucrative market.
>
>After all, look at other products first designed as "disability solutions":
>vibrating pagers, ball mouses, speaker phones. They are on the mass market
>now.
>
>Speaker phones, Motorola's new talking pager, and PacBell's priority ringing
>service can be used by everybody. At the Winter Olympics, Japan's NTT is
>testing another product with great potential for more than the disabled. It's
>a mobile phone that can be worn like a watch, weighs less than two ounces and
>uses voice-recognition, not a keyboard.
>
>Obviously, these are things that you do to serve the public interest. It is
>the job of government to be the guardian of the public interest. But I
believe
>that the public interest will be served by a strong, competitive wireless
>industry. I have no interest in seeing wireless companies look for
opportunity
>in Bangladesh instead of Baltimore." ...
>
>
>
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