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  2. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

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    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 building or within some short distance from the base station.

  3. On- and off-hook - Wikipedia

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    On hook telephone handset. The term on-hook has the following meanings: The condition that exists when a telephone or other user instrument is not in use, i.e., when idle waiting for a call. Note: on-hook originally referred to the storage of an idle telephone receiver, i.e., separate earpiece, on a switchhook.

  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. Telephony Application Programming Interface - Wikipedia

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    The Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) is a Microsoft Windows API, which provides computer telephony integration and enables PCs running Microsoft Windows to use telephone services. Different versions of TAPI are available on different versions of Windows. TAPI allows applications to control telephony functions between a ...

  6. Western Electric hand telephone sets - Wikipedia

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    Western Electric hand telephone sets. A typical Western Electric hand telephone set of c. 1930. It consists of a handset mounting with the handset held in a cradle, and a subscriber set mounted against a wall or vertical surface in close proximity. Shown is a B1A hand telephone set, also known as the type 102B-3 hand telephone set.

  7. Panasonic - Wikipedia

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    Panasonic Mobile Communications manufactures mobile phone handsets and related equipment. As of 2012, it had around a 20 percent share of the Japanese handset market. [ 121 ] Panasonic used to market mobile phone handsets worldwide, but in December 2005 announced its withdrawal from overseas markets due to poor sales.

  8. Hook flash - Wikipedia

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    Pick up phone handset (causing the line to be off-hook). Hear a dial tone. Dial the first number and greet the first party. Press the hook flash button (or quickly tap the on-hook sensor on the phone). Hear a stutter dial tone (a series of beeps followed by another dial tone). Dial the second number and greet the second party.

  9. DECT - Wikipedia

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    Handsets can in many cases be used as intercoms, communicating between each other, and sometimes as walkie-talkies, intercommunicating without telephone line connection. DECT operates in the 1880–1900 MHz band and defines ten frequency channels from 1881.792 MHz to 1897.344 MHz with a band gap of 1728 kHz.