News & insights

News & insights

News and insights about our activities

Find all the latest news and insights about Phonak’s products and their applications, and hear about our users’ experiences.

Without innovation, there can be no development. That’s why Sonova Communications works continuously to further develop and improve on the state of the art. You can learn more about this here.

As a leading provider of innovative devices, Sonova Communications offers a huge range of systems for a wide variety of activities. 

Sonova Communications is committed to continually improving its products and services. That’s why we conduct intensive research over many years in the areas of communication and hearing technology, enabling us to present innovations to our customers that effectively protect sensitive human hearing.

Innovation

Roger technology – digital, adaptive, wireless.

Roger is an adaptive, digital wireless transmission technology by Phonak that operates in the 2.4 GHz band. Roger audio signals are digitally encoded and broken down into microsecond-scale packets (160 μs), which are then sent to the receivers multiple times in different channels between 2.4000 GHz and 2.4835 GHz.

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News

Roger Covert – Secrets conversations

«Secrets conversations» is not the title of a thriller but of an article on Roger Covert published in “Connected”, the magazine of the company LEMO. Thanks to the LEMO company for this very interesting article. Enjoy reading!

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News

Roger Covert 2.0

At Phonak, we are aware how critical communication is in physical surveillance. Every message must be clearly understood by all team members in any situation.

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Case Study

A tough test for Phonak hearing protection in the Gotthard tunnel

A tough test for Phonak’s intelligent hearing-protection systems on one of the largest present-day tunneling projects. When Strabag Tunneling Switzerland needed a new hearing-protection system to protect its team working on Switzerland’s record-breaking Gotthard Tunnel project, it chose Phonak Communications AG and its Serenity SPC intelligent system.

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News

Phase out FreeCom Aviation Headsets

We would like to inform you that for strategic reasons we have decided not to further develop the FreeCom product line (FreeCom 7100, FreeCom 3000). We will be focusing our activities on our core competencies of hearing protection solutions (outside of the cockpit) and discreet communication. This means we will phase out our FreeCom product line.

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