[comp.dcom.telecom] Special phone needed for disabled person

TRADER@cup.portal.com (11/04/88)

I need to find a special piece of phone equipment for my aunt who is in a
wheelchair. Right now, she has a Muraphone with a voice synthesizer that
can automatically dial 911 emergency by pressing a button on the transmitter.
Unfortunately, Muraphone is no more...

She needs to find another phone with a voice synthesizer (no tapes please!)
that can also automatically dial for help if a "panic button" is pushed.
This should be a company that is able to provide repair service if
necessary, etc. without having to send the unit back to Japan or wherever.
Also, would anyone have a source for the Muraphone transmitters, so she
could have a backup?

                                             Thanks,
                                             Paul McGinnis
                                             TRADER@cup.portal.com
                                             TRADER%cup.portal.com@sun.com

ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (11/10/88)

I don't know what part of the country you are from, but many of
the alarm companies provide a radio controlled push button to set
off a medical call for help.  This is a central station sort of alarm.
The 911 center where I used to live gave up on accepting the autodialled
synthesized alarms.

-Ron