While wireless can’t cure every corporate ailment, it can certainly treat the primary ill of business—the tyranny of voice mail and phone tag. The solution is obvious and simple: cordless office phones. Why, then, has this staple of the average American home not yet migrated into the workplace? Answer: cost, security, and quality. Until now. (more…)

The human voice is a consolidation of the waves of electrical energy carried across the given channel capacity. Humans generate a combination of amplitude and frequency changes in a continuing flow. If the changes are held constant, then the conversation becomes monotone, highly unacceptable for the average conversation. Indeed, if everything were held constant, the recipient of the information would be lulled to sleep. (more…)

Our interface to the telephone company network is the single-line telephone set. It stands to reason that we need to connect this set to the telephone company central office (CO). The pair of twisted wires running from the telephone company’s CO is called the local loop unbundling. Each subscriber, or customer, is delivered at least one pair of wires per telephone line. (more…)