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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Do you remember the days prior to cell phones when grandma called "the house", never knowing which grandchild might answer? Then, each family member had their turn speaking with her. Now, in the absence of landlines, grandma must select one of four or five cell numbers to call, often reaching mom or dad in the car, at the restaurant, shopping, or at work. As for the rest of the family, who knows?</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Barry <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span> </span><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 09:32:59 AM EDT, Harry Forsdick via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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Or only the reverse -- ring your cell phone if a call comes in on the Panasonic "landline" phone?</div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_default">In our case we don't want to have a "landline". Rather we would like to buy some portable phones installed in various places around our house so that even if we didn't have our cellphones in our pockets we could answer the cellphone if we were near one of the fixed locations where a Panasonic (or any other) phone was located.</div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_default">I suspect this isn't the way these bluetooth Panasonic phones were intended to work, but I hope I am wrong.</div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_default">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_default">-- Harry</div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font><table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" style="font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-left:0px;margin-right:auto;" class="yahoo-compose-table-card"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top" style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.forsdick.com/resume/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harry Forsdick</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lexingtonphotoscan.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lexington Photo Scanning</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lexingtontmma.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Town Meeting Member Precinct 7</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:harry@forsdick.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">harry@forsdick.com</a></font></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="5"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top" style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a shape="rect" href="https://goo.gl/xZXT2F" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">46 Burlington St., Lexington, MA 02420</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="callto:17817996002" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(781) 799-6002 (mobile)</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.forsdick.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.forsdick.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://forsdick.weebly.com/home/my-websites" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click</a> to see my other websites</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div id="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949yqt79804" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949yqt2836431990"><div class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 8:44 AM Alan Millner <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:armillner48@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">armillner48@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_quote"><div>Our Panasonic cordless phone system ( our landline) has bluetooth connection to our cellphones, so we can answer a cell call at any of its 6 handsets, if the cell is sitting near the base unit on its charger.<div><br clear="none"><div>
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<div><br clear="none"><div>On Oct 15, 2023, at 8:36 AM, Harry Forsdick via LCTG <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none"><div><div>Our solution to this has been to get rid of our “landline” when we got rid of cable and just use our cell phones. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>It wasn't difficult — it had already started to happen because we discovered that the predominant users of our landline were telemarketers.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Now calls come to the person being called. It does require that each of us to carry our phones on our person. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I have yet to find a way to combine my cellphone to a fixed wired phone so that each of our phones could be picked up at fixed locations in the house. If anybody has leads on this I would love to hear about this.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>— Harry</div><div><br clear="none"><div class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 6:56 PM BARRY HASS via LCTG <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydpe0f285c8yiv0223155949gmail_quote">I have the premium plan which gives me a second inbound line. It also calls two numbers of my choice for notification purposes when I dial 911. All voicemails appear on the phone but are also emailed to my wife and myself. We have the OOMA app on our phones which allow us to call US phones from anywhere in the world at no cost as long as I have an internet connection. OOMA premium has call forwarding, and call forwarding on network or power failure. There are other features which I don’t recall at this moment.<br clear="none">
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