At 10:06 AM 5/18/01 -0500, John Craft <jcraft@DIAMONDDATA.COM> wrote:
>Anybody ever heard of, or thought of trying to make a home phone line
>interface for a cell phone?
>
>This device would provide the home line with a dial tone and accept the
>DTMF information and then dial the cell phone and "link" the two
>together, and on the other side, provide a ring when a call is comming
>in.

NovAtel Communications essentially built this capability into one of their
cell phones back in 1994. There was a small black box (it really was
black!) that plugged between the phone line and the cell phone. You could
make and receive calls over the landline or the cell. Even provided CLID
info for incoming landline calls. Worked like a charm; But AFAIR it didn't
really sell all that well.

Regards,
Wayne

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