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Cordless phones.(Buyers guide)

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Two noteworthy trends: Phones use higher frequency bands, and a growing number can handle multiple handsets from a single base.

It's easier than ever to have a phone where you want one. The newest breed of cordless phone lets you put a handset in any room in the house, even if no phone jack is nearby.

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AT&T, GE, Panasonic, Uniden, and VTech account for most of the market. VTech owns the AT&T Consumer Products Division and now makes phones under the AT&T brand as well as its own name.

Current trends include phones that support two or more handsets with one base, less expensive 2.4- and 5.8-GHz analog phones, and ...

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