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  2. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

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    Two cordless telephones 3 VTech cordless landline phones A Panasonic KX-TG2226B 2.4GHz cordless phone with answering machine. A cordless telephone or portable telephone has a portable telephone handset that connects by radio to a base station connected to the public telephone network. The operational range is limited, usually to the same ...

  3. AT&T Merlin - Wikipedia

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    Any standard analog telephone device, such as a cordless phone or analog computer modem, can be connected to the BTMI's phone port. Through Merlin system programming, the order of lines selected for outgoing calls can be set for when the analog user dials 9 to make an external call.

  4. Answering machine - Wikipedia

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    A Panasonic answering machine with a dual compact cassette tape drive to record and replay messages. An answering machine, answerphone, or message machine, also known as telephone messaging machine (or TAM) in the UK and some Commonwealth countries, ansaphone or ansafone (from a trade name), or telephone answering device (TAD), is used for answering telephone calls and recording callers' messages.

  5. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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    Answering Machines. 1971-mid-2000s In 1971, the world met the telephone answering machine with the debut of the PhoneMate Model 400. Now that you didn't actually have to be home to know who called ...

  6. Portal:Telephones - Wikipedia

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    A mobile phone, or cell phone, is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones (landline phones).

  7. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    A cordless telephone system consisting of a handset resting on a base station (left) and a second handset resting on a battery charger unit (right) A cordless telephone or portable telephone consists of a base station unit and one or more portable cordless handsets. The base station connects to a telephone line, or provides service by voice ...

  8. Western Electric hand telephone sets - Wikipedia

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    Other American and foreign telephone manufacturers had already produced this type of telephone, often referred to as French phone. In the Bell System, hand telephones formally replaced the hitherto used deskstand , colloquially called candlestick , by the end of the 1920s, although reconditioned candlestick telephones remained in service for at ...

  9. Wireless home phone - Wikipedia

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    A wireless home phone service is a service that allows a regular wired telephone to connect to a cellular network, as if it were a mobile phone. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is an example of a wireless last mile connection to the public switched telephone network , also known as a wireless local loop .