Vodafone comes with a subscription for the deaf and hard of hearing. With the subscription you can only use a Samsung Galaxy S II. Deaf people can also with the help of an interpreter to communicate via audio-visual communication facilities, thus saith the provider.
The subscription can only be concluded by people who a statement to be able to provide the organization, Annie, says Vodafone. Annie is an organisation that has been a few years, try the deaf to communicate via mobile phones and text phones, which the deaf and hard of hearing to communicate through a special application on a BlackBerry Curve 9300.
The new Vodafone plan works with a Galaxy S II from Samsung, and includes not only text, but also video. Users may for 30 euro 1GB of data devoid and 250 text messages to send to the subscription. Through video conferencing, they can connect, while using video is also an interpreter available, that any spoken text can be translated in sign language. There are approximately 25,000 deaf people in the Netherlands, claims to be the provider.
Although the subscription from Sunday can be closed, denies the provider strongly that it’s going to be a 1-April joke. “This is a serious initiative to the deaf, to help better communicate via mobile phones,” says a spokesperson of Vodafone.