LandLine Replacement is Common

It appears that the once common "reach out and touch someone" approach to communication is changing. ATT and the Bell System are moving over for a "change of the guard". Most everyone, now, has access to a cell phone. That makes the cellular docking station very popular with those who want to eliminate the fixed home phone and link their standard extension phones to the wireless world.

By connecting your cell phone to the docking station, you can charge the handset battery while continuing to make and receive cellular calls from a standard telephone set (cordless work great). When you are ready to leave the house (or office, condo, RV, boat, or dorm room) simply disconnect the handset and keep on talking.

Talk to your cellular service provider about "porting" your landline phone number to a cell phone.

Larry Henry/www.OmniCellCommunications.com

The Latest for Cell Phone Radiation

We hear a lot about it...but what can we do about it. You cannot hear it, see it, or feeling, and the experts disagree as to whether or not it is really there. Just to be safe, the maximum signal strength is .6 watts, down from the original 3.0 watts. But there is still a questions of whether there is still a problem with the rediation.

Review the results of the latest testing by clicking here. Whether or not you feel that the use of a cell phone will cause health problems, you can utilize a standard telephone while at home, in your office, condo, boat, or dorm room. OmniCell Communications has fixed wireless terminals and docking stations that allow you to continue to use the cellular network while talking on your favorite cordless phone.

Cellular Phones and Air Travel

The attached article was written in 2002...this idea is definitely not new. Once we got used to carrying the cell phone everywhere we go, we want to be "connected" at all times.

It is now early 2005 and cellular use at 30,000 feet is still not a reality. But, we are a lot closer. Late last year there was a flurry of activity...and it appears that we will have something by the end of this year. Now we need to ask if this is a good thing.

Have you ever noticed the mad dialing going on as soon as the tires meet the ground? Everyone from the front of the plane to the back wants to let their family and friends know that they have finally landed. Now, can you imagine the numerous conversations going on in the same airplane cabin while still enroute? Will we need cellular "phone booths"? The occasional call to be sure the family is OK would bother no one. However, the booming voice of the CEO carrying on "business as usual" or Aunt Tillie wiling away the hours from New York to LA could get a bit distracting.

I think that the ability to transmit data (GPRS, EDGE, GSM, etc.) while in the air would be great. If a "conversation" is necessary, perhaps E-Mail or Instant Messaging (IM) would be a less obtrusive choice than voice. With the new phones, this can be accomplished with a laptop computer or the cellular handset. Whatever the outcome of this big change in air travel, common courtesy must guide the user.

Cellular Communications...A brief overview

For the initial post to this area, it would pay to review where we've been in order to see where we are going. We have been talking on a telephone for less than 100 years, now. For 60 or 70 of those years we couldn't even own the telephone that we were using. Then, things began to change. We were able to buy our own phone, run our own extension phones in our home, and install a huge piece of equipment in the trunk of our car and call it a "mobile phone".

In the past 20 years we have gone from a "bag" phone to one that is the size of a bar of soap...and razor thin. We can talk on them, take pictures with them, and send each other a text message. It's amazing what we can do...and technology is only scratching the surface. The things we will be able to do in a "wireless world" have not even been thought of yet.

As we move from a "landline" existence, with all of its costs and installation issues, to a modern cellular world, we must be able to define how this technology can help us. In future postings we will review many ideas on how to "corral" this new-found freedom for both voice communications and data transmission. For a check of some of the new equipment that will help us, see OmniCell Communications.