What is interference between hearing aids and wireless phones?
The digital electronics revolution has brought many benefits to consumers, including improved wireless communications. At the same time, the increased use of digital technologies has proven problematic for some people who wear hearing aids. Signals from digital wireless phones can be unintentionally picked up by hearing aids, processed through the hearing aid circuitry and cause interference. Interference is typically experienced as a “buzz” heard by the hearing aid wearer, which makes it difficult or impossible to hear the telephone conversation. This is not the case with the analog phones, which transmit the signal in a format that does not interfere with hearing aids.
