Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Jim Gottlieb Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Help Needed With AT&T Portable Phone Message-ID: <11257@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Aug 90 09:53:05 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Jim Gottlieb Organization: Info Connections, Tokyo, Japan Lines: 29 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 590, Message 2 of 12 In article <11102@accuvax.nwu.edu> irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe) writes: >He doesn't know how lucky he is, or how bad Panasonic cordless phones >can be despite the quality of their other phone equipment. Mine >starts becoming a little noisy at five feet and is about as noisy as >it can be and still be usable at fifteen feet. My AT&T oordless >phone, on the other hand, probably can go twenty-five feet or more >(but not very much more). This is on cordless phones rated to be usable up to 300 meters. Here in Japan, the maximum allowed is 100 meters. Some of the ones sold here are rated at a maximum of ten meters. Now if it really goes ten meters this shouldn't be a problem since most Japanese apartments are not more than ten meters wide or long (think of them as a walk-in closet). But my sister tells me that her 300 meter cordless phone (in New York) fades out if she crosses to her husband's side of the bed. I wonder if you actually have to sit on top of the base unit on these ten meter models? I'll find out soon. I'm supposed to hook up a jack for one in the next few days. Note that because Japanese living quarters are so small, the local market is full of space-saving devices. The big rage right now is combination telephone/cordless-phone/answering-machine units. I just saw an ad for one that adds a fax to the above.