| A cordless phone system is typically designed to use | | | | main phone number of the location where the phone |
| radio frequencies to transmit voice information digitally. | | | | system is installed. There will typically be a single, larger, |
| These phones have changed a great deal over the | | | | base station that frequently includes a digital voice mail |
| years, from large "brick" phones to the sleep, almost | | | | system. The remote handsets are usually more |
| too-small designs of today. Where they used to be an | | | | compact and are just extension phones, but perhaps |
| extreme rarity for most people, today it seems odd to | | | | with access to the voicemail features. The frequency |
| see a cord on someone's phone system! | | | | of these cordless phone systems ranges, but are |
| A good cordless phone system will typically include | | | | usually between 900 Mhz and 6 Ghz. The higher |
| many flexible and powerful features, allowing | | | | frequencies tend to work better over longer distances, |
| everyone from the small business owner, to someone | | | | or indoors where there is a lot of metal or other |
| who runs a home based business, to benefit from | | | | potential interference. |
| modern communications. These cordless phone | | | | In addition to their basic functionality as a digital phone |
| systems are so portable, they allow an extreme | | | | system, today's digital cordless phone systems include |
| degree of freedom and mobility to the user. | | | | so many other features, including but not limited to |
| The first cordless phone systems were made public | | | | digital voice mail with multiple private mail boxes, call |
| as early as the 1970s, but they really did not do well in | | | | transfer and forwarding capabilities, caller ID and |
| the marketplace and many were actually recalled due | | | | call-waiting caller ID, extremely long standby and |
| to problems such as short battery life. Technological | | | | talk-time battery life, and more. They are also incredibly |
| advances have been rapid however, and today's | | | | lightweight and even pocket sized. Many of today's |
| cordless phones are a far cry from their forebearers. | | | | cordless phones look just like cell phones in fact. The |
| Cordless phones are now in use in nearly every | | | | sound quality is also superb, and most will even have a |
| industrialized nation around the world. | | | | jack to connect a headset to (and it may even include |
| A common cordless phone system will have | | | | the headset!) Personally, I'm now using a GE cordless |
| anywhere from 2 to as many as 10 different | | | | phone system that works on a 5,8Ghs frequency, and |
| receivers, or handsets, that can be used in any | | | | it is simply fantastic. I can press the intercom button to |
| combination including simultaneously. However, unlike a | | | | contact my partner in another room, and if I misplace |
| cell phone system, these phones do not each get an | | | | the handset I can page it and it will beep until I track it |
| individual unique phone number. They all share the one | | | | down. |