Home Phones – What are your options
Ever since the telephone was first invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell people have been looking to put phones in the home. It’s a way of communicating with the outside world and being able to keep in touch with your friends and family. One of BT’s most well known phrases is “Its good to Talk†and it is very hard to disagree. Even if it just a simple telephone in case of an emergency, home phones in the modern day world are very important.
There is now a huge choice of different telephone service provider’s people can choose from. Companies such as BT, Virgin, NTL, Sky, and Talk Talk to name just a few are some of the options available. As well as the traditional standard telephone lines many people now have broadband lines in the home as well. However the good thing about this is both standard lines and broadband lines take the same standard analogue phones.
As well as the telephone line there are also a number of different services that can be added as well. Some of these range from caller display, call waiting, call diversion, and call barring, so it is important your home phones are compatible. For example there is no point paying for the caller display service on your home phone line, if your telephone doesn’t even show it.
If you go back about 10 or 15 years most people had corded phones in the home. However nowadays as costs go down and technology improves, cordless phones are very popular. One of the problems with using corded phones is that each telephone needed to be plugged into a phone socket. With cordless phones users can locate extra handsets in more than one room, and as they are wireless they don’t need to be connected to the phone line.
One of the biggest changes to modern day life is that a lot of people now work from home, instead of going to an office. This means a lot of manufacturers are creating phones that can accept either more than one phone line, or make and receive calls over the internet. To make a telephone call over the internet you need a VOIP or IP compatible phone, as well as a broadband line. Users can then use the same home phones to make and receive both business and personal calls.
When choosing your home phones there are a variety of different features available to select from. Phones with name and number directories can store all your friends details, stopping the need of filling a contacts book full of numbers. Some phones even have built in handsfree so you can have a conversation without lifting the handset. Personally though I just use this feature to dial the number I want to call and lift the handset when someone answers.
In more recent years mobile phones have become very popular and the number of people using home land lines has dropped. This is not only because most people have there mobile at all times, but contracts offer free minutes so the calls are free. However to access the internet you need a telephone line connected so people do still buy home phones. As well as this the call quality on a mobile call is no where near as good as using a normal home phone land line.
Nicomms are a supplier of a wide range of home phones and office phones. Whether you want corded or cordless phones, Nicomm can supply the goods.
