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If you have a landline, have a corded phone.
For $330, you get a two-line base station with both an answering machine and a standard corded phone.
A telephone purchased more than a year ago will probably not have a headset jack, so you will either have to upgrade your phone or buy a headset that comes with a converter that will work with an older corded phone.
I also plugged in a standard corded phone, which also works well.
Keep at least one corded phone in the house because cordless phones require AC power.
Yeah, if you picked up the corded phone when you were on the internet, it cuts off the internet.
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Telecom used to be copper wire and corded phones.
Twenty-year-olds and teens lived without much: VHS movies, video games, making plans to meet up via their parents' corded phones, and going to the movies as often as possible, checking the times through Moviefone.
Twenty-year-olds and teens lived without much: VHS movies, video games, making plans to meet up via their parents' corded phones and going to the movies as often as possible, checking the times through Teletext.
Once you test-drive a headset, as I did, it is hard to go back to a regular cordless -- or even (gasp!) corded -- phone.
You should also hang onto at least one of your old-fashioned, curly-cord phone sets for use in a blackout because most cordless phones are worthless if the power goes out.
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