2.4GHz cordless

Early telephones were big wood boxes with a mouthpiece on the box and a corded receiver in your ear. Not fun and not flexible. Modern electronics made cordless phones almost the standard in every house; they allow people to talk on the phone while walking all over the house. If you're thinking about a new cordless phone, the 2.4GHz cordless phones are a great phone system for just about anyone.

Cordless phones, of course, come equipped with all the extras--Caller ID, Call Waiting, etc.--and some extras only phones without cords can offer: Multiple handsets. How much money have you wasted buying a four or five corded phones to put around the house? Pick a cordless telephone with extra handsets and you have a phone system that fills the whole house with phone extensions in one inexpensive package. If you really like corded phones, you can even get corded phone/ cordless phone combinations.

Cordless phones are simple--they are little radio transmitter/receivers. Once upon a time (not so long ago) people had trouble with phones that picked up other people's conversations. This was embarrassing, but 2.4Ghz cordless phones rarely have such problems. At ultra high frequencies, low-power radio waves don't travel far, so cordless phone handsets that work great around the house won't work at all when carried to the neighbor's house. In crowded urban and suburban neighborhoods, 2.4GHz cordless telephones make great neighbors.

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