The TelCom has features that are wonderful for anyone using 216-217 MHz FM receivers.

• The TelCom can be left on all the time, since it plugs into house power. That means; no batteries to replace or recharge. It's always there ready to help you hear the TV and the telephone.
  
  
• It plugs into an audio out of your TV and can provide instant access to your TV audio. While most people will choose the TV as its primary audio source, it's also possible that the TelCom could use the primary audio source for any other audio device, like a Stereo, or CD.
  
  
• The TelCom also (simulaneously) plugs into a phone jack and instantly makes every phone in your house accessible.

  When the phone rings, the ring of the phone is also transmitted over top of the primary audio source, so you can hear it even if you are watching a loud TV show.

  Whenever anyone picks up wired or remote (not cell) phone in the house to answer an incoming call or to make an outgoing call, then the TelCom source is automatically switched to hear the telephone. The audio is transmitted via FM directly to your hearing aid, so you only need to use a phone if you want to speak back during the conversation. After the call, it automatically switches back to its primary audio source.

• Although it's "hard wired" to your TV and home phones, it can be easily disconnected and taken on trips. It is easy to connect to any analog phone jack (won't work on digital phones). It's not as easy (sometimes not even possible) to connect it quickly to TVs, but even that can be done if the TV has the right audio outputs.

The TelCom is expensive, but it's perhaps one of the most amazing ALDs you'll ever purchase, since it provides convenient access to both the TV (or other primary audio source) and all the wired or remote (not cell) phones in your house. You will never have to buy a special hearing aid compatible (HAC) phone again.

If hearing the phone and TV (or other electronic sources) is important to you and you can afford a 216-217 MHz FM system (they are even more expensive than the Telcom), then the Telcom is a super addition to that system.

If you already have 215-217 MHz FM to your hearing aid, either built in or via boots, then run, don't walk, to an audiologist that works with Phonak and try out the TelCom.