Cordless Expandable Telephones

Cordless Phones – A Brief History

If you go back ten to fifteen years cordless phones were very large, expensive, and extremely poor quality. This meant that even in the workplace it was not very often that you would find someone using a cordless, and anyone who did, found it needed replacing pretty regularly.

One of the main reasons that the quality wasn't that great was because these early models used analogue technology. This is the wireless signal between the phone and its base transmitter and also resulted in most models having large ugly aerials. Nowadays cordless phones use DECT or digitally enhanced cordless telephony between handset and base. Simply put this means the signal between the phone and base is digital instead of the old analogue one. These DECT phones meant that the handset size could be reduced, and the quality and range was much improved.

The advertised range of a DECT phone with the majority of manufacturers is 300m from the base. However this is only if absolutely no objects are inbetween, such as buildings and furniture. For this reason the normal range for most phones indoors is about a 50m, but this can be smaller if the conditions are poor. Some models do have the ability to expand the range with special repeater stations, but there are not many of these on the market.

The largest change that has happened since DECT cordless phones were first introduced is the price. Some of the first digital cordless phones sold for between £150-£200 pounds each. Now however you can purchase them for as little as £15-£20 a time. This change in price has also meant that more people in the home can afford to take advantage of this technology. So much so that consumers are even buying them in multi packs to put extra cordless phones in rooms around the home.

Purchasing extra handsets with a cordless phone is a great way to create a small one line telephone system. Only the main base has to be plugged into the telephone line and all the other handsets connect wirelessly. This means you can even put a telephone in a room that doesn't have a phone socket. Each handset on the system can then answer calls, ring each other internally, and transfer calls between one another.

Areas such as in a workshop or in the warehouse may need a phone that is designed to be more hardwearing than normal. For this reason manufacturers such as BT, Gigaset, and Panasonic have produced robust models. These cordless handsets are far tougher then normal and are usually shock, splash, and dust proof. This means that handsets don't break so often and need to be replaced when broken. Users also often need to be able to talk on the phone handsfree; so many cordless phones now have headset sockets.

The cordless phone market is so big now that there is now a huge array of different makes and models to choose from. They can range from large ones with big chunky buttons for the elderly, to models that are very small like a mobile phone. As the use of the cordless phone becomes more popular in the home style has also started to become a factor. Features such as a colour screens and metallic chrome finishes are now common place, especially on the high end models. As costs come down we expect features to go up and to put it simply cordless phones are here to stay.

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