{"id":2314,"date":"2010-12-06T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2010-12-06T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T16:45:18","slug":"fixed-position-cell-phone-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2314","title":{"rendered":"Fixed-position cell phone service"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Telular SX5T fixed wireless terminal<\/em><\/p>\n

Because I’m a communications nerd, and because of the problems that go with being well wired when you live in the sticks, the communications devices I use are not typical. Though I could get an ordinary land-line telephone easily enough, I’m too far from the central office to get DSL, so I figured, why bother getting a land line and putting up with yet another ditch across my yard if I can’t get Internet service on it?<\/p>\n

I’m very happy with my 10-pound Motorola M800<\/a> digital bag phone. It’s on the Verizon network, and for more than two years it has been my only telephone. Its audio quality is almost as good as a land line, and with its external antenna, etc., it will get a strong signal where more portable cell phones fail. But a 10-pound cell phone is not exactly convenient as a home phone. I have to run up and down the stairs to answer it. I also wanted a telephone that visitors can use that behaves exactly like an ordinary telephone. For safety, in my opinion, visitors ought to be able to dial 911 from a familiar phone. And of course I’d like to have telephone extensions in the kitchen, bedroom, and radio room.<\/p>\n

A company named Telular makes excellent products for this, and I knew that the Telular SX5T<\/a> was what I needed. The concept of how it works is simple enough. It’s a cell phone, with a good transmitter and a proper external antenna, but there’s no handset and no buttons. Instead, you plug it into your house’s telephone wiring system. The Telular SX5T then puts a dial tone onto your house wiring, and any phone in the house can then make and receive calls. It works just like a regular phone. You can even use it with fax machines. You can have up to five telephone extensions on the house wiring that the device plugs into.<\/p>\n

I’ve kept my Motorola bag phone active. I “added a line” to my Verizon service, so the bag phone and house phone share minutes on a Verizon family plan.<\/p>\n

The retail price of the Telular unit is $700 or more. However, they often can be bought on eBay at a very steep discount.<\/p>\n

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\nMy vintage, cinnabar-colored Bell System telephone, which I used for many years in San Francisco, is now working again. It doesn’t even know that it’s now a cell phone.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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