home phone systems
Fixed household lines
Home phone systems are landline telephone setups for residential use, typically including a base station connected to a wall jack and one or more cordless handsets.
Before mobile phones became ubiquitous, these were the primary means of household communication.
The term now often distinguishes traditional wired service from cell phones: We finally cancelled our home phone system last year.
- landlineStationary wired telephone
- cordlessWithout attached wiring
- receiverOne who accepts transmission
- dial toneSound indicating phone readiness
- answering machineTelephone message recorder
voicemail · handset · cradle · rotary · push-button · ring · let it ring · busy signal · off the hook · caller ID · call waiting · touch-tone · extension · wall-mounted · kitchen · nightstand · cord · telemarketer
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Wireless handheld communication devices
mobile phones · cellular phones · smartphones · satellite phones · walkie-talkies
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