A cordless phone (portable phone) is a phone with a wireless handset that transmits through radio waves to transfer and receive digital signals. Right now, phones have developed so much, from being a big, fat piece of stationery to a more well-accepted light, slim and handy communication gadget. 

A cordless phone isn’t like a standard phone. It needs the house’s main electricity to give power to the base station. The cordless handset itself is powered with a battery that is recharged by the base station when the handset sits in its cradle.

Nowadays, modern cordless phone standards have even combined the used to be clear-cut line between cordless and cell phones by reinforcing cell handover, the variety of other advanced features like data transfer and for some, international roaming. The new features provide communication solutions to small businesses and home office. They makes works become more efficient and productivity increases. 

For the deployment models, its base stations are sustained by a commercial cell network operator and users subscribe to the service. 

In 1970 cordless phone systems were first introduced, but there were still many drawbacks back than, such as the size and the limited battery life.  Since then, cordless phone system has been improving and people are asking for them around the world. 

The meaning of a cordless phone system is there are 3 to 10 cordless phones’ network that can be used by many people who has the same phone number. They come with one base unit and a corresponding set of cordless handsets. They are usually based on the 2.4 Ghz frequency technologies and still available on larger distande. 

As was mentioned above, cordless phone systems are available in various configurations and have different features. They integrate voice mail facilities with call forwarding, caller Id and many other advantages. Aside from those, the latest systems are light in weight and have quite long battery life. In addition, large range of cordless phone systems is available with high sound quality with no interference. The cordless phone systems also have intercom facilities that enable communication between two handsets. A paging facility is also present that allows the us to call the handset of another person within range. 

The other benefits of cordless phone systems is they provide a cost effective solution for small businesses. Because of their effectiveness, cordless phone systems can be easily integrated into the existing phone system and allowing companies to take advantage of all the benefits. To put it simply, cordless phone systems make people to be mobile in their working place and still be able to receive and make phone calls.