Summary
A one-page Sennheiser statement on its MobileConnect Wi-Fi system and the assistive listening sections of the 2010 ADA Standards, with its advice on receivers and neckloops.
Key findings
- Opens with the claim that "Sennheiser MobileConnect is compliant to the 'Assistive Listening Systems' requirements" of the 2010 ADA Standards (sections 219 and 706).
- Notes that the 2010 Standards name hard-wired systems and three wireless types (induction loop, infrared and FM), and proposes that systems streaming over Wi-Fi to smart devices form a new, fourth subclass it calls "Digital Communication Systems".
- Argues that such systems share the advantages of the three named types: unaffected by sunlight outdoors, unlike infrared; secure digital transmission where confidentiality matters, unlike FM; and no need to stay in a set area, unlike loops.
- States that one MobileConnect Station serves up to 100 connections at once, which it equates with the receivers required under section 219.3 for a room of up to 6,500 seats.
- Says venues must still provide receivers under Table 219.3, at least 25% of them (and no fewer than two) hearing-aid compatible, and recommends meeting this with venue phones that have the app preinstalled and Wi-Fi set up, plus neckloops (it names the Geemarc iLoop+) or wired headphones.
- Says installations in large or complex venues need a professional sound engineer, citing the advisory to section 706.1.
Limits
The maker's own reading of the law, with no test data; it cites no ruling or guidance from the Department of Justice or the Access Board on Wi-Fi systems. The 100-connection figure is the maker's and is sized to the loan-receiver table, not to everyone who might listen on their own phone. June 2021 is printed above the title; no publication day is given. Sennheiser's MobileConnect product page still linked the same statement on 9 October 2026.
Read the original
www.sennheiser.com/globalassets/digizuite/41165-en-mobileconnect_ada_compliancy_statement.pdf
Cited in
- Which hearing devices can receive which systems?Open
- Which systems satisfy the ADA and building codes, and does a listener's own phone count?Disputed
- Auracast, hearing loop, infrared, RF or Wi-Fi: which suits which room?Disputed
- How many receivers and neckloops does each code require, and how should a loan pool be run?Partly answered
- How many listeners carry a telecoil, an Auracast-capable device or a smartphone?Disputed
- What does Wi-Fi streaming need from the venue's network and from listeners' phones?Partly answered
- What does each system cost to install and to run over its life?Open
- Do neckloops give telecoil users good sound from FM, infrared, Wi-Fi and Auracast receivers?Not reliable yet
- What works in hotel meeting rooms and conference centres, and what do the rules ask of them?Partly answered
Cite this source
Sennheiser Streaming Technologies GmbH. MobileConnect ADA Compliancy Statement. Sennheiser. June 2021. https://www.sennheiser.com/globalassets/digizuite/41165-en-mobileconnect_ada_compliancy_statement.pdf (accessed 13 October 2026).
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