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Article: Cordless phones.
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- Country Living
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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There's no need to stay tied up on the telephone. Now you can talk freely, with no strings attached.
When skies are fair and the weather's warm, no one wants to remain cooped up in the house waiting for a telephone call or have to dash back inside to grab the phone while gardening or barbecuing. A cordless phone can let you roam far from its base unit - up to a half mile in some cases - chatting away as you sip lemonade on your hammock or go about your chores. Yes, more of us agree, cutting the cord is a wonderful thing.
A major telephone shopping shift occurred last year, when cordless phones began outselling corded models for the first time. The reasons? ...