Cellular with ordinary telephone capability

Is there a cellular telephone with ordinary telephone (landline)
capability?

On 19 Mar 2005 00:56:03 -0800, "hygum" <thomashygum@gmail.com> wrote:

>Is there a cellular telephone with ordinary telephone (landline)
>capability?

Like the cell docket, or what exactly are you looking to accomplish?

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Cellsocket looks good, but I need a device with the opposite
functionality. With cellsocket you can call on the cell phone account
with a land line phone. I need to call on my land line account with my
cell phone when i'm home because in my country (Denmark) land line is
cheaper.

Other suggestions?

On 21 Mar 2005 12:59:42 -0800, "hygum" <thomashygum@gmail.com> wrote:

>Cellsocket looks good, but I need a device with the opposite
>functionality. With cellsocket you can call on the cell phone account
>with a land line phone. I need to call on my land line account with my
>cell phone when i'm home because in my country (Denmark) land line is
>cheaper.

Ah, but any cell phone maker who tried to add a landline capability would
alienate his _real_ customer... the cellular phone company who buys their
phones and resells them to you and us. Such a phone would allow you to
bypass the cellular carrier, and since the cellular carier is out to
maximize shareholder revenue, they would not be performing due diligence if
they didn't squash that sucker flat.

You will just have to make due with a cordless phone when close to home,
plus your mobile when you're not. The EnGenius phones have reasonable
range, significantly better than most other cordless. You may wish to look
into them, plus perhaps a directional antenna or passive reflector for the
handset, if that's permitted in Denmark.


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johnbartley@email.com wrote:

> Ah, but any cell phone maker who tried to add a landline capability would
> alienate his _real_ customer... the cellular phone company who buys their
> phones and resells them to you and us.

But GTE Mobilnet used to have a phone that acted as a cordless and used your
landline when in range of the base station, and a cell otherwise. Cingular has
a similar device, or recently had it.

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