[geeks] Interconnect: Cell phone to house phone system

[hike]

That sounds right.  We want to kill the phone bill and use a cell phone.  A
cell phone is cheaper now in our area and with our carrier.  But we want to
still use the internal & wired phones.


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:

> >> 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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