No Snap or Crackle: A New Technology for Cordless Phones - New York Times
Its hilarious to see the NYTimes not checking their facts before writing this article... DECT has been around for at least a decade as a technology for cordless telephony. In fact, it has been used for much more. There are over a million fixed phone lines around the world that depend on DECT for their connectivity instead of a regular POTS connectivity via copper wires. These are mostly in South Asia, South Africa, South America and Russia where DECT offers a very affordable solution to telecom operators vs. digging/stringing cable up to subscribers' premises.
As related news I should mention that the DECT Forum, part of the ETSI group is meeting on Friday April 28, 2006 in France.
Disclaimer:
I work for a company (
Midas) that supplies DECT equipment for fixed line telephony in emerging markets.
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