Have you ever been concerned that your neighbor might be listening in on your most private telephone conversations? Are you worried about placing orders over your cordless phone system for fear of revealing your sensitive data to others? If these are your concerns, then a digital cordless phone may be for you.



Digital signal encryption secures your conversations and telephone credit card transactions from eavesdropping by all but the most high-tech scanners. They not only provide much needed security features; they also give you advanced features and functions that give the knock-out blow to analog phones.

A digital cordless phone is a technological leap from analog days. Digital technology converts your voice to a series of ones and zeros; otherwise known as binary code, the language of computers.

The transmitted code is sent on your phone's designated frequency between the handset and base, then decoded back to the original signal that you and the other party understand. This encryption gives you the privacy and security you thought you already had.

Stronger, clearer frequencies mean less interference and better voice quality, and wide bandwidths mean you can be as far as a mile from the base unit. While manufacturers are reluctant to specify exact ranges, they claim that digital cordless phones have a range four to seven times greater than the 300-to-500-foot range of standard analog cordless phones.

Panasonic and Casio say their models provide a range of up to 4,000 feet under optimum conditions. Although variables such as metal buildings can affect reception, the 900 MHz frequency is not affected by computers, microwaves or other electronic equipment.

Some of the fun features of these phones include built-in answering machines with remote message pickup from the handset, call waiting, caller ID and two-way paging, and speaker phones built into the base that allow users to send and receive calls if the handset is elsewhere. Options like distinctive ring tones, a dual battery system, keypad on the handset and the base unit, two-way paging, improved life of cordless phone batteries, and walkie talkie functionality are so useful; you may not know what you did without them. You can even sync bluetooth phones with your digital phone through wireless broadband data transfers.

Who knew that a by-product of avoiding unwanted eavesdropping and security breaches could lead you to fun and useful digital cordless phone features you might not have known were available? Great voice quality, minimal interference, and increased distance from the base unit also add to the overall positive experience of switching from an analog to a digital, cordless telephone.