TTY Use With Sprint PCS Service

A TTY (also known as a TDD or Text Telephone) is a telecommunications device that allows people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who have speech or language disabilities to communicate by telephone.

Your phone is compatible with select TTY devices. Please check with the manufacturer of your TTY device to ensure that it supports digital wireless transmission. Your phone and TTY device will connect via a special cable that plugs into your phone’s headset jack. If this cable was not provided with your TTY device, contact your TTY device manufacturer to purchase the connector cable.

When establishing your Sprint PCS Service, please call Sprint Customer Service via the state Telecommunications Relay

Service (TRS) by first dialing . Then provide the state TRS with this number: 866-727-4889.

To turn TTY Options on or off:

1.Press Menu > Settings > Others > TTY Options from standby mode. (An informational message is displayed.)

2.Press .

3.Select TTY Off, TTY Full, TTY + Hear, or TTY + Talk and press .

Note: In TTY Mode, your phone will display the TTY access icon when a headset or TTY device is plugged in.

If TTY mode is enabled, the audio quality of non-TTY devices connected to the headset jack may be impaired.

Your Phone’s Settings

Section 2B: Controlling Your Phone’s Settings

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Sprint Nextel M500 manual TTY Use With Sprint PCS Service, To turn TTY Options on or off