Analog Captioned Telephone Service (CTS) in Maine will be discontinued on December 31, 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Captioned Telephone Service (CTS) for landline (analog) CapTel\u00ae phones is ending in Maine on December 31, 2026.<\/strong> Captioned Telephone Service for internet-connected captioned phones and other devices will continue, and is free for any Deaf or Hard of Hearing Mainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you use a CapTel\u00ae phone connected to landline phone service only (no internet), you may be impacted. This includes CapTel phone models 200, 800 or 840. After December 31, 2026, calls made on these phone models will still work but they will have no captions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contact the Maine Telecommunication Relay Outreach Program to assist with information and support during this transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For information about alternative equipment or services, please contact the Relay Outreach Program at Disability Rights Maine at 207-626-2774 extension 107<\/a> or email deafservices@drme.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Analog Captioned Telephone Service (CTS) in Maine will be discontinued on December 31, 2026. What is changing? Captioned Telephone Service (CTS) for landline (analog) CapTel\u00ae phones is ending in Maine on December 31, 2026. Captioned Telephone Service for internet-connected captioned phones and other devices will continue, and is free for any Deaf or Hard of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWho will be impacted?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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