[geeks] Interconnect: Cell phone to house phone system

[Mouse]

>> What's the name of the device that permits a cell phone to be
>> connected to a house's phone service.  The house phones would made
>> calls routed through the cell phone.

> I don't know the name of a separate device that will do this, but
> many Panasonic cordless home phone systems have this facility
> built-in.  Our KX-TG7641 does, for example.

As I read the first quote, that's the wrong way around: that allows a
cordless (non-cell) phone to call out on a house POTS line, whereas the
original desire is to allow (presumably POTS) house phones to use a
cell phone's cell service to carry calls - basically, like setting up a
smartphone as a wifi hotspot to carry data over cellular, except for
voice-over-POTS rather than data-over-wifi.

(I can't help with the initial question; I don't know of any short name
for such a device.  Indeed, I wasn't aware that cellphones were made
with that capbility.)

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