5.8GHz cordless

Remember the early days of telephones--standing by a big wood box with your mouth at the box and a receiver at your ear? Today's electronics have put cordless phones in virtually every house and allowed people to talk on the phone while walking all around the house. If you're thinking about a new cordless phone, then you'll want to consider the 5.8GHz cordless phones. They are a great phone system for just about anyone.

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 5.8Ghz cordless phones rarely have such problems. At very high frequencies, low power radio waves don't travel far, so a cordless phone handset that works great around the house doesn't work at all if you carry it to the neighbor's house. In crowded urban and suburban neighborhoods, 5.8GHz cordless telephones make great neighbors.

Cordless phones, of course, come equipped with all the extras--Caller ID, Call Waiting, etc.--and some extras non-corded phones can offer: multiple handsets. How much money have you wasted buying four or five corded phones to put around the house? Pick a cordless telephone with extra handsets and you'll 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.

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