Do you remember when mobile phones were all linked to permanent contracts? Hopefully it was just a year, but most offers push you to be tied to the company for two years. And of course, if you broke your phone or you lost it during that period, you had to continue paying permanence. And buy another phone.

Ok, ok. What that has to do with audiology. Listen carefully, there it is.

The history of hearing aids and audiology services is very similar to the mobile phones. Traditionally, all instruments were acquired with an associated 5-year maintenance and adjustments that were sometimes a very useful pack, but in other cases just preyed. Which meant that some of you could be paying for something that you never would use.

But then it came the crisis and audiology centers began to seek solutions to adjust prices of hearing aids. They appeared new ways, such as reducing to 2 years maintenance, and even began offering basic services: the hearing aids, your 30 days free trial, and the manufacturer's warranty. Nothing else.

But should not everyone must have the freedom to decide to buy or not maintenance services and for how long? Indeed.

Today, you can buy audiology services for one, two, three, four or five years, whenever you want during the first five years after purchase. And you can also buy a hearing aid that only has associated basic services and then pay for repairs and adjustments you need on the way.

And thanks to the separation between hearing aid and services, you can now know how much hearing aids cost and make a comparison of real prices on the web.

In short, it's about you to have the autonomy to choose what suits you. If you are passing through and urgently need a hearing aid, you don't have to pay 5 years of manteinance services that you can not take advantage. And if, instead, gives you security having it for five years, you can choose to have it.

Always remember that the sense of hearing well is having the freedom to decide! In the same way that we are free to buy the phone that we like and without permanence.