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  2. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

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    The cordless phone handset connects to a wireless access point or base station that supports the same technology. Also required is a call management function and a gateway to the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

  3. AT&T Merlin - Wikipedia

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    Because the Merlin system was designed to support only Merlin phones, the General Purpose Adapter allows for the connection of non-Merlin equipment such as cordless phones and answering machines.

  4. 2.4 GHz radio use - Wikipedia

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    Many of the cordless telephones and baby monitors in the United States and Canada use the 2.4 GHz frequency, the same frequency at which Wi-Fi standards 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n and 802.11ax operate.

  5. Martin Cooper (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Motorola gained Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval for cellular licenses to be assigned to competing entities and prevented an AT&T monopoly on cellular service. Cooper worked at Motorola for 29 years; building and managing both its paging and cellular businesses.

  6. Western Electric hand telephone sets - Wikipedia

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    The Western Electric hand telephone sets comprise a series of telephones that were produced from 1927 by the Western Electric Company for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and the Bell System.

  7. Push-button telephone - Wikipedia

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    Push-button telephone. The Western Electric No. 2500, a typical American 12-button phone of the 1970s and early 80s. Gigaset A165 push-button cordless telephone using DECT with a base station. 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.

  8. Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications - Wikipedia

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    Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) is a cordless telephony standard maintained by ETSI. It originated in Europe , where it is the common standard, replacing earlier standards, such as CT1 and CT2 . [1]

  9. Advanced American Telephones - Wikipedia

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    In addition, Advanced American Telephones manufactured phones serve as a portrayal of AT&T's home phone service and are seen in ads for it. Phones made today by Advanced American Telephones primarily include cordless telephones and some corded phones, such as Trimline, and some multi-line desk phones.

  10. Trimline telephone - Wikipedia

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    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.

  11. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    3 April 1973: Motorola employee Martin Cooper placed the first hand-held cell phone call to Joel Engel, head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs, while talking on the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype. 1973: packet switched voice connections over ARPANET with Network Voice Protocol (NVP).