Manx Telecom has launched a ’global first’ in the field of mobile technology with a new product called MT clearSound.

It can provide life-changing benefits for people with varying degrees of hearing loss.

It was hailed as a ’hearing aid in the sky’ at a launch event at the Nunnery.

MT clearSound uses innovative mobile technology specially designed software to create a personal profile tailored to an individual’s hearing ability, whether or not they have medically diagnosed hearing loss. This profile fine tunes speech in all incoming and outgoing calls on the Manx Telecom mobile network.

The technology behind MT clearSound is located within the company’s mobile network and requires no purchase or installation of specialist equipment by the customer.

In a clinical trial carried out in 2018, 90% of the volunteers taking part agreed that speech was clearer and easier to hear when using the product.

MT clearSound was researched, trialled and developed in the Isle of Man by Manx Telecom – working in partnership with Goshawk Communications which is part of the Manx Telecom group – and is backed by leading medical professionals.

Manx Telecom Pay Monthly mobile customers will be the first in the world to use the product – it is being offered initially as a value added service at no extra cost.

There will be a report on the event at the Nunnery in the business news in the next Examiner