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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. Push-button telephone - Wikipedia

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    A push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones.. Western Electric experimented as early as 1941 with methods of using mechanically activated reeds to produce two tones for each of the ten digits and by the late 1940s such technology was field-tested in a No. 5 Crossbar switching system in ...

  4. CT2 - Wikipedia

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    CT2. CT2 is a cordless telephony standard that was used in the early 1990s to provide short-range proto-mobile phone service in some countries in Europe and in Hong Kong. It is considered the precursor to the more successful DECT system. CT2 was also referred to by its marketing name, Telepoint.

  5. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    An old rotary dial telephone. AT&T push button telephone made by Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980. A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically ...

  6. Wireless telephone - Wikipedia

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    Wireless telephone may refer to: Cordless telephone, a telephone in which the handset is portable and communicates with the body of the phone by radio, instead of being attached by a cord. Mobile phone, a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area ...

  7. Trimline telephone - Wikipedia

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    Early foreign made Trimline, December 1986. 90s Trimline phone made by Lucent/Philips and branded AT&T. The Trimline telephone is a series of telephones that was produced by Western Electric, the manufacturing unit of the Bell System. These telephones were first introduced in 1965 and are formally referred to as the No. 220 Hand Telephone Sets.

  8. Panasonic - Wikipedia

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    Retrieved June 11, 2022. Panasonic Holdings Corporation[a] is a Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1918 as Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works[b] in Fukushima, Osaka by Kōnosuke Matsushita. In 1935, it was incorporated and renamed Matsushita Electric Industrial Co ...

  9. Telephone jack and plug - Wikipedia

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    Telephone jack and plug. A telephone jack and a telephone plug are electrical connectors for connecting a telephone set or other telecommunications apparatus to the telephone wiring inside a building, establishing a connection to a telephone network. The plug is inserted into its counterpart, the jack, which is commonly affixed to a wall or ...