Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: David Lewis Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cordless Phone User Vows New Fight Message-ID: <2903@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 15 Jan 90 15:17:55 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ Lines: 32 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 29, message 9 of 11 Sorry, but there are a couple of comments I feel I can't pass up... In article <2794@accuvax.nwu.edu>, csense!bote@uunet.uu.net (John Boteler) writes: > Excerpted from: > UPce 01/08 1709 Phone user vows new court fight > DIXON, Iowa (UPI)... > "The cellular phone, the rich man's phone, is covered, but the > average man's isn't," Tyler said. Hmm. The "average man" is going out and buying $150 cordless phones, but telcos are still compelled to provide virtually free lifeline service to low-income households... > Cellular phones are entirely broadcast over radio while cordless > phones are merely transmitted from the headset to the base unit, which > is plugged into a regular phone jack. Sorry, UPI. Cordless phones are *broadcast* from the handset, and the base unit merely happens to be tuned to the proper frequency to pick it up. This "merely transmitted from the headset to the base unit" implies some sort of directional link... David G Lewis ...!bellcore!nvuxr!deej (@ Bellcore Navesink Research & Engineering Center) "If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower."