Before the mobile telephone but long after smoke signals, there were cordless telephone systems, a land line with a cordless handheld handset. Cordless telephone communications are established over radio waves between the telephone’s base and the cordless handset. Communications between the base station and a handset is sometimes limited, with complete signal loss between the different floors of a building not so uncommon.
The base station itself is connected to a fixed phone line like standard telephones and draws power from a wall outlet. It is this base station that continues to differentiate between a cordless telephone and cell phones (which do not need a base station), no matter the great technological increases of cordless telephone units. Nowadays you can even find some cell phone-like features in corldess house phones.
While they have certainly come a long way, in the beginning when cordless telephones first appeared on the market the devices were unreliable and rather expensive. Not only was the operational range rather limited with poor quality sound, but there was no real security or privacy because signals could be easily intercepted by other cordless telephones in the area due to the limited range of channels available. It took about 10 years and a half for cordless telephones to ultimately have an opportunity of becoming familiar home items, thanks to the opening up of the frequency range to 9 hundred megahertz with the arrival of DSS technology.
These 2 technical inventions took care of eavesdropping fears and cordless telephones took off as favored products. Though cellular telephones are pervasive and here for good, plenty still keep landlines in their houses for a number of reasons, and cordless telephones remain a workable market, with new models introduced reasonably frequently. When selecting a cordless telephone, the very first thing to bear in mind is security:these phones are really just radio transmitters and thus subject to eavesdropping, though nowadays requiring a reasonably high level of technical proficiency to do so successfully. In this regard, be certain to choose DSS technology, at the 2.4 gigahertz frequency at a minimum (any less impinges on security while any more cuts into battery power).
This brings us to the sole other major issue : battery life-span. Avoid nickel-cadium if at all possible; they will exhibit a so-called memory effect unless they are fully drained before recharging. Apart from these two issues, the rest of a cordless telephone’s features are completely up to personal taste.