Basic Phone

This is your older fashion cellular phone that has a small screen, and a keypad instead of a touch screen. This phone is not considered as NSC compliant, and will likely face a tax when buying such a phone. A visually impaired person can get a doctor’s note which will be sent to the tax board along with the phone’s receipt of payment to get their tax refunded. This is because a visually impaired person needs to feel the keys in order to make a call. This is simply not possible on a touch screen phone.

Even though the phone is very basic, and not likely to use much in the way of data, there is still a requirement for an SD card slot, and support for 4G+ connectivity. This is because the 3G network would have been replaced with 5G. A VOLTE? phone is essential since the 3G network has been shut down. Since LTE has been around for more than a decade, it would stand to reason that most if not all 3G phones have likely expired since LTE became standard.