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Multihandset Phone Systems July 27, 2007
With the call clarity of a corded phone and all the features of a mobile phone the latest cordless phones are a truly welcome addition to the home.
Perhaps one of the most overlooked and underused facilities of these new DECT phones is the ability to transfer calls and intercom when you have a GAP ( Generic Access Protocol ) and a multihandset phone system such as shown at the Trio Handsets.
If you have a triple cordless phone set up like this and the base station is in a clear position, you should be able to make the most of the DECT phone’s range
which should be up to 300m in ideal conditions – though realistically 100m is achievable through walls and household impediments..
With a multi, or triple handset system you can place the satellite/ additional handsets around the house or office, constrained only by their necessity for a charger. Say for example you have your main base station ( this is the master unit and is attached to your incoming phone line) in the living room; you can add an additional handset in a bedroom, without requiring an extension telephone line or wiring. An handset in the kitchen will finish of the trio and you have what is, in effect a small system. You can receive calls from any handset registered to the base and transfer calls from handset to handset – even just intercom from handset to handset.
Say you are sitting in the garden and the phone rings, you may well be sunning yourself with a nice tall glass of Pimms© so you may decide not to answer. Your partner answers the call in the kitchen and it being a tantalising offer from a double glazing company, the call can be put through to you without you even having to leave your deckchair.
DECT Phones July 24, 2007
Here at Telephones Online we have been selling DECT / Digital Cordless Phones for many years and have seen the technical specifications of these home phones grow at an incredible rate.
When we first started out the best selling cordless telephone was a BT Diverse 1000. This was a model manufactured by Siemens for the European market and was a simple DECT telephone. It was built according to the DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) standards set in the early 1990′s.
From DECT Web : http://www.dectweb.com
DECT is a digital wireless technology which originated in Europe, but has now been adopted increasingly worldwide, for cordless telephones, wireless offices and even wireless telephone lines to the home. The younger brother of GSM – Global System for Mobile – it is by contrast a radio access technology ( running at 2.4Ghz , rather than a comprehensive system architecture; DECT has been designed and specified to interwork with many other types of network, such as the PSTN (conventional telephone networks), ISDN (new digital and data phone networks), GSM (mobile phone networks) and more.
The BT Diverse 1000′s features, today will appear basic. It had a 10 number memory and the ability to make and receive calls; that is it. We retailed it at £99.99 – and that was the cheapest digital cordless you would find on the net!
Today Digital Cordless Phones are still running on the same technology as previously but their feature list has grown massively since then. It could be said that the market has demanded the same features that they have become accustomed to in their mobile phones.
Today’s version of the original is the BT Diverse 6110 Digital Cordless Phone, this phone has the basic functonality of a 200 Name and Number Memory. Additional to this, and inconceivable a few years ago when we were selling the BT Diverse 1000 range of telephones, the phone includes a colour screen, sms texting, music on hold, a clock and calendar as well as a SIM card reader and caller display. Amazingly this is now sold for a fraction of the price of the original.
The evolution of the basic DECT phone has been swift and more and more features are being added with each new model that comes out; cordless home phones now can connect through a wireless connection to use VOIP / Skype, we will wait and see what comes next
