| # | Name | Comments |
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| 101 | Darrell Shandrow | My wife has the additional software for the Nextel I350, but it really doesn't go far enough to fully address accessibility. I'm for anything that will increase our access. |
| 102 | Anonymous | |
| 103 | Anonymous | |
| 104 | Penny Reeder | I agree with the points made in the petition and believe that this is an ADA/Telecommunications Act issue. |
| 105 | Paul Ferrara | This is important; thanks for the opportunity to sign this petition. |
| 106 | Dexter "Chip" Orange | I urge Sprint to provide a low-cost accessible cell phone solution to it's visually impaired customers. This is a socially responsible action, and a competative business one as well given that Sprint's competators are taking this progressive action. Not to do so will only show Sprint's disdain for anything other than it's profits, while it's competators are showing their a valuable contributor to our society. |
| 107 | Steven&Ann Harrison | Eric, This accessibility of all brands of cell phones needd to be addressed like this. Not just for one company in particular. |
| 108 | Anonymous | It's important that all blind people have the right to accessible cell phones. |
| 109 | Brent | I think Sprint should make something accessible. I think they have partial accessibility on some LG phone, but it still leaves many features we can't use. |
| 110 | Dan Simpson | I am currently a user of Sprint/Nextel, but will leave them if they don't provide phones accessible to the blind soon. |
| 111 | Anonymous | |
| 112 | John | |
| 113 | Joe | I don't have a cell phone but this is fore you guys that do. |
| 114 | Teri Pierson | |
| 115 | Jon Squally | |
| 116 | louis whitfield | i feel it is a rip off. phone companies have been for years, charging the blind for services that we can not use. even though we pay for cell phones. the features are still there on our phones. we may not have the features activated but we pay taxes on those features. |
| 117 | Lauri Shay | As a blind cell phone user, I feel that all cell phone companies should make their products accessible and affordable to blind people. |
| 118 | David Faucheux | I think it is a grave injustice that the cell phone companies have gotten away with it this long. A lot of things are accessable. Hell even microsoft got on the ball. |
| 119 | Jan Robitscher | I usually don't do petitions, but as a Sprint customer with low vision I am deeply concerned about issues of accessibility and am about to bail to att&t if it has better phones and service for the visually impaired. This could be easily solved with some cooperation between phone companies and some sensitivity to the visually impaired. |
| 120 | Jan Robitscher | I usually don't do petitions, but as a Sprint customer with low vision I am deeply concerned about issues of accessibility and am about to bail to att&t if it has better phones and service for the visually impaired. This could be easily solved with some cooperation between phone companies and some sensitivity to the visually impaired.
P.S.: THEY ARE TRYING TO CHARGE ME FOR A CONTRIBUTION I DID NOT MAKE. HELP! |
| 121 | Sherrie Woods | |
| 122 | Anonymous | |
| 123 | Dennis DiBona | Being blind and a long time Sprint cell user I think this is absolutley necesary. I however will ask that the Apple Mac userpopulation be represented in your petition as well. Especially needed is the new iPhone with AT&T to be totally speakable and accessibe throughout all menues and submenues and functions, the same as for the sighted. You have my support and that I am sure, of all of my friends both sighted and low vision/blind. Will spread the word worldwide. |
| 124 | james hooper | as a totally blind individual it is sad in this day and time a major company like sprint has not stepped up to the plate, to make their phone totally accessible. |
| 125 | Jacob Struiksma | |
| 126 | Dave Marthouse | |
| 127 | Reginald George | Sprint also now has a fairly accessible LG phone, the 550 also known as the Fusic, but, there's no doubt they could do much more to reach out to their disabled customers. They don't answer e-mail to their accessibility page and their representatives and store staff aren't trained in accessibility features of the phones or the needs of low vision and blind customers. |
| 128 | Jeremy Hutchings | |
| 129 | Dardi Kunz | |
| 130 | Anastasia Chirnside | |
| 131 | Anonymous | |
| 132 | Joanie Taylor | build in magnifiers, add on magnifiers,
www.thephonemonocle.com |
| 133 | Tom Lijewski | |
| 134 | Carol Landgraf | I applaud Sprint for giving Eric Foreman a listening ear and requiring only a few hundred signatures to validate this petition. It would be fantastic if all cell phone service providers offered similar services for the legally blind. It would be great if the blind could enjoy all the benefits and conveniences that cell phones have to offer. I consider my cell phone and services an indispensable item needed for my day to day routine functioning. |
| 135 | bill tillery | I will be retiring in the near future and will be looking for an accessible cell phone from a company who will be both affordable and accessible to me as a totally blind consumer. |
| 136 | Robert E Fauble | |
| 137 | Jo Anne Stombaugh | This accessibility of cell phones would lead to more competition between the carriers and more choices for visually impaired individuals. |
| 138 | Harry Brown | please make your cell phones completely accessible. If you don't I will not use your service.
I love the free incoming calls, but the blind cannot use your phones for anything but to make phone calls, and there's much more sighted folks can do. |
| 139 | Gilberto Pastrana | I fully agree with this comment. I have been a Sprint customer for more than three years along with my wife and daughter. My blind friends in Europe and even in Latin America have already solve the mobile accessibility issues through the use of compatible software with Simbian Operating System, and it is really discouraging that nothing has been done on that respect by Sprint, being one of the most important wireless companies in the United States. |
| 140 | Sara Richter | |
| 141 | Lori Fernandez | My name is Lori Fernandez and I have been a Sprint Subscriber for 2 years. I am visually impaired and when I was trying to find the best option for upgrading my phone, I called Sprint to find what was available. They suggested I go to one of the stores personally. I tried that still know one knew anything. I finally started searching the internet on my own and found a Samsung phone with some voice features. The people I talked did not seem to know anything about their phones or what to do to help someone. They just did not seem to care. |
| 142 | Governor Staten | I think this to be an important thing. Not everyone can, themselves, pay for things, usually software, that would enhance accessibility to a given phone. |
| 143 | Anthony S | I am a strong supporter I am legally blind and its heard to see the phone. Please approve large fronts etc |
| 144 | Anonymous | |
| 145 | Anonymous | i have retinitis pigmentosa and find sprint phones hard to use also and they dont give blind any real breaks on phones or services. i have a verizon phone that does more than the sprint phone i have. not happy with sprint at all |
| 146 | David R. Basden | |
| 147 | Siavash Bahreini | Please provide current phones with software update and future phone with software which can read screen. I have a great phone with voice guide features, but no talking caller id, no talking text messaging feature... |
| 148 | Nikkala Martinez | sprint Nextel has alot of potential. It just needs to remember that it can't leave anyone behind ever... |
| 149 | Omar Amin | Sprint should keep up with current and upcoming technology to make all customers happy |
| 150 | Ahmed Amin | Everyone should have equality for everything... |