Nucleus 5 upgrade for an older model implant is available?

AliciaM said:
i got an email from cochlear announcing that it would announce soon when the implant would be available for all implantees that were implanted b4 2005 ie all non freedom implantees
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Ooo, I can't wait to get one!!! I'm still with ESPIRIT 3G and I'm in a need of upgrade.

I don't think I have any emails from cochlear implant. perhaps you can copy and paste the email in here, please?
 
if i can find it hold on
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1. Durlach, N.i. & Colburn, H.S. Binaural phenomena. In: E.C. Carterette & M.P. Friedman (Eds.), Handbook of Perception, Volume IV 1978;365-466

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it's in bolded in the email ..i included the whole thing..i checked the board and the exact date has yet to be posted but still that's good news early 2011 is prob in the next 3 months so thats good :)
 
hrmm, but what about the Nucelus 22? What about those who were implanted around 1993 ish?
 
It will reach to the oldest implant eventually, they go backwards in stages ie, Freedom first (which is already compacitble), N24, N22 so on..
 
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