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metaphoricmoose · 2025-04-29T02:58:50+00:00

Because it’s not a cellular. You cant walk around with it like that

shootYrTv · 2025-04-29T03:00:25+00:00

Landline cordless phones don’t use any long-range cellular technology. The handset usually communicates with the base through Bluetooth or similar short-range wireless communication.

fire_god_help_us_all · 2025-04-29T03:03:15+00:00

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rewardiflost · 2025-04-29T03:03:52+00:00

It is nothing like cellular.
It is connected to a unit in the house with a basic radio transmitter.
Think of it like being connected to wifi in your house and leaving your house - once you are out of range, you have to switch to another network or you drop your connection. Or, if not wifi, then a simple walkie-talkie with limited range, that "talks" to a radio which is connected to the phone line inside the house.

Landlines are basically the same, actually a bit worse since most use internet instead of an actual telephone network now.
If you plug in, they are pretty reliable but crappy sound quality. If you have a cordless phone, they still have limited range. They are better - less interference than 20 years ago, but still only as good as the network you are plugged into.

Bobbob34 · 2025-04-29T03:25:34+00:00

I thought of a cordless landline phone as a cellular/landline hybrid phone so I treated it like a cellphone by leaving the house and driving away with it to run an errand.
It didn't keep me on the call beyond several hundred feet away from home. What was the matter?
And this was around 2005 or so.
Have landline cordless phones gotten better with longer ranges in 2025? How have landlines advanced over the last 20 years?

Are you ok? Because it's a landline. It's working off the... land line, not a satellite.

xervir-445 · 2025-04-29T03:02:02+00:00

Not a cell phone. Its a landline that talks to its little base-station stand over a short-range radio singal similar to Bluetooth but probably an older signal.

RoaringRiley · 2025-04-29T03:04:31+00:00

Landlines haven't changed in the last 20 years. The handset communicates with a base station inside your house, which has enough range for you to move around your house, but not very far outside of it.

SirTigsNoMercy · 2025-04-29T03:11:04+00:00

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NDaveT · 2025-04-29T14:55:27+00:00

It didn't keep me on the call beyond several hundred feet away from home. What was the matter?

The transmitter/receiver that was hooked up to the phone line only had a range of a few hundred feet.

A cordless phone isn't like a cell phone. It only works with the transmitter/receiver in your house. A cell phone works with the nearest cell tower and has a bunch of electronics in it that tell cell towers which phone number is assigned to it.

TheresJustNoMoney · 2025-04-29T03:13:43+00:00

I fed this post to ChatGPT 4o. Here is its answer:

Great question — and you're thinking very logically! Here's a full explanation:

Why did the cordless landline phone call garble and disconnect?

Cordless landline phones aren't cellular phones, even though they seem similar. They're basically a radio — a very short-range private radio that only connects your handset to a base station plugged into the house's phone line.

Around 2005, most cordless phones operated on frequencies like 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, or 5.8 GHz.

Typical range was about 300–1000 feet (91–305 meters) in perfect conditions.

Obstacles (like house walls, trees, cars) dramatically cut that range down, often to 100–300 feet in real-world use.

The signal was direct from handset to base — not from one tower to another like a cell phone.

When you drove away:

The radio signal got weaker very fast.

Once the signal dropped below a certain threshold, garbling (packet loss, static) started.

Then the connection completely dropped once the signal was too faint.

In short: You left the range of the radio connection. A cordless phone can't "hand off" to a new tower the way a mobile phone can — its base station at home is its only link.

Were cordless landline phones ever designed for longer range?

Yes, a few models tried to extend the range, but not by much:

Early "long-range" cordless phones from the 1990s and 2000s used 900 MHz analog and sometimes pushed about half a mile in very open areas — but they were rare and often illegal to operate at those powers without licenses.

Most models increased clarity and security (by switching to digital and spread-spectrum tech) not range.

FCC regulations also limited how much power consumer cordless phones could use. You couldn't just boost range freely.

Have landline cordless phones improved in range by 2025?

Not significantly. Here's the reality:

Modern 2025 cordless phones are DECT 6.0 standard (Digitally Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications).

DECT is very secure, clear, and interference-resistant, but the range is still about 300–500 feet in ideal conditions.

Some newer models have "range extenders" you can plug into outlets around a large house, but that's still limited.

No cordless landline today can match a cell phone’s miles-long range because they still depend on the home base unit.

How have landlines in general advanced from 2005 to 2025?

Landline technology changed mostly in backend infrastructure:

Many "landlines" now run over fiber optic networks (VoIP-like services), not old copper.

Voice quality is often much clearer ("HD Voice" with digital landlines).

Cordless phones added features like Bluetooth linking to your cellphone, talking caller ID, text-to-speech, larger ranges inside buildings (with extenders), answering machines with cloud backups, etc.

But the concept of landlines has declined overall — fewer people have landlines now compared to 2005.

In summary:

In 2005, your cordless handset lost the call because it couldn't stay connected to your home base once you got a few hundred feet away.

In 2025, cordless handsets have improved in clarity and features, but range is still limited and they can't behave like cell phones.

Would you like me to also show you a quick timeline chart of landline advancements from 2000 to 2025? It could be interesting!

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Monday, April 28, 2025

When I drove away from my parents' house while still on a call on their cordless landline, why did the call start to get garbled and disconnect less than a minute later?

When I drove away from my parents' house while still on a call on their cordless landline, why did the call start to get garbled and disconnect less than a minute later?

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