Cordless phone intercom/paging

[AaronJ...@gmail.com]

I'm hoping someone has already been through this, because it's driving
me up a wall. I want to buy one of the many brands of cordless phone
where you get a base station and multiple handsets, but I want one
important feature: intercom.

Now the frustrating part is that what I grew up calling an intercom
was a device where you pressed a button and spoke and anyone near the
other stations (or a target station) would hear your voice. It seems
that, in modern cordless phones, "intercom" is now lingo for the
ability to ring any of the other phones, which someone must then
answer.

Does anyone know of an actual intercom in the original sense of the
word on a modern cordless phone? I've heard people say that this is
called "paging," but that now seems to have come to mean "making a
handset beep so that you can find it in your seat cushions." In fact,
every word that might have meant what I thought it meant now seems to
mean, "you can make it beep or ring."

Thanks in advance!

--
Aaron Sherman
http://www.ajs.com/~ajs

[RickH]

You probably need business speaker phones to do voice paging, heres
one:

http://www.smarthome.com/52022.html

There are others on smarthome.com that also do this, "speakerphone
with intercom" is what you want, (unless you want to get into an
expensive centralized phone control system). When you page all
phones, the first one that answers gets the exclusive connection to
you. Not sure if the person answering can simply talk to the
speakerphone or if they must pick up, but at least you would have
whole-house voice paging capability, instead of whole-house ringing.
Conversely I dont know if you can pick up any phone and "listen in"
simultaneously to all the other extensions unsolicited, like the old
intercoms would let you do. But the owners manuals are all out there
at smarthome to find out. There may even be a wireless business
speakerphone with intercom and paging.

[DA]

DA had written this in response to
http://www.thestuccocompany.com/maintenance/Cordless-phone-intercom-paging-247554-.htm
:

AaronJ...@gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks in advance!

In the world of business phone systems "intercom" means that you can page
a particular telset through its speaker and they can talk back to you.
"Paging" means that you can page one telset, several or all, but they
cannot talk back to you.

I am not aware of any residential-grade intercom system that would combine
both ways of "paging". But business phone systems, albeit slightly used,
that have both features can be had on eBay for laughable amounts of money
and installed in a residential house in one evening or just about. All the
manuals are usually available on the Web if they were not included with
the system. Note that they will require all cables to come back to the
system unit. You can also purchase cordless sets for those system, but
they are usually on the expensive side. I would seek out Avaya/Lucent
Partner systems only because I'm familiar with those but there are many
more makes/models to choose from.

Good luck!

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[Bob M.]

<AaronJ...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1189020075....@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...

> I'm hoping someone has already been through this, because it's driving
> me up a wall. I want to buy one of the many brands of cordless phone
> where you get a base station and multiple handsets, but I want one
> important feature: intercom.

I know this isn't what you want, but try a single-handset with a base unit
type cordless. They do just that kind of intercom.

Or, you could have a dedicated wireless intercom system, which you can
probably get from Radio Shack or some such place.

[gman]

gman had written this in response to
http://www.thestuccocompany.com/maintenance/Cordless-phone-intercom-paging-247554-.htm
:
Aaron,

I would be grateful to learn if you found a true paging/intercom cordless
phone system. Like you were several yrs ago, I am most frustrated in
looking for this feature. My kids and wife scream thru our house. This
is not rocket science. Thanks so much.

Best,
Glenn
onegka...@gmail.com

AaronJ...@gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks in advance!

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[Reed]

gman wrote:
> gman had written this in response to
> http://www.thestuccocompany.com/maintenance/Cordless-phone-intercom-paging-247554-.htm
> :
> Aaron,
>
> I would be grateful to learn if you found a true paging/intercom cordless
> phone system. Like you were several yrs ago, I am most frustrated in
> looking for this feature. My kids and wife scream thru our house. This
> is not rocket science. Thanks so much.
>
> Best,
> Glenn
> onegka...@gmail.com
>

Have you considered a wireless intercom that is independent of the
phone ??

Such as:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2036287&CAWELAID=107593976

[Tony]

What sucks is that if you use it for an intercom, and not just saying
"pete, pick up line 1", you have to go over to it to talk back. At a
very old job in a very old building with a very old intercom, we could
reply without having to go near it. They are available but quite
expensive last time I priced them, and now it's just me here so I don't
need the intercom anymore.

[AZ Nomad]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:42:16 +0000, gman <onegkaufman2_a...@foo.com> wrote:
>gman had written this in response to
>http://www.thestuccocompany.com/maintenance/Cordless-phone-intercom-paging-247554-.htm
> :
>Aaron,

>I would be grateful to learn if you found a true paging/intercom cordless
>phone system. Like you were several yrs ago, I am most frustrated in
>looking for this feature. My kids and wife scream thru our house. This
>is not rocket science. Thanks so much.

Better yet, pretend you're civilized. Don't reply if some asshole
screams across the house. If somebody doesn't come downstairs at
dinnertime, go on without them.

[willshak]

Tony wrote the following:

You mean that if someone calls you on the intercom, the intercom
automatically switches to send mode without any action on your part?
That's a nice feature to have for the boss. He just presses your
intercom number and without saying anything, he/she can hear everything
that is being said in the room.

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

[mm]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:42:16 +0000,

onegkaufman2_a...@foo.com (gman) wrote:

>gman had written this in response to
>http://www.thestuccocompany.com/maintenance/Cordless-phone-intercom-paging-247554-.htm
> :
>Aaron,
>
>I would be grateful to learn if you found a true paging/intercom cordless
>phone system. Like you were several yrs ago, I am most frustrated in
>looking for this feature. My kids and wife scream thru our house. This
>is not rocket science. Thanks so much.
>
>Best,
>Glenn
>onegka...@gmail.com
>
>AaronJ...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>> I'm hoping someone has already been through this, because it's driving
>> me up a wall. I want to buy one of the many brands of cordless phone
>> where you get a base station and multiple handsets, but I want one
>> important feature: intercom.
>
>> Now the frustrating part is that what I grew up calling an intercom
>> was a device where you pressed a button and spoke and anyone near the
>> other stations (or a target station) would hear your voice. It seems
>> that, in modern cordless phones, "intercom" is now lingo for
>> the
>> ability to ring any of the other phones, which someone must then
>> answer.

That's true, and I normally don't like it when they give new meanings
to old words, but here it makes sense. If you left your cordless
phone on Listen all the time, I think it would run down the battery
much faster. (Used to be, you could totally turn off the phone, so
the battery only discharged through leakage or something. Would last
4 days out of the charger. Can't find that anymore so I broke down
and bought a couple remote phones each with its own charger.

>
>> Does anyone know of an actual intercom in the original sense of the
>> word on a modern cordless phone? I've heard people say that this is
>> called "paging," but that now seems to have come to mean
>> "making a
>> handset beep so that you can find it in your seat cushions." In

Here I think you're unfair. Sure, it's good to find in the seat
cushions. They even make tv remotes now that beep like this, I think.

But it will also enable you to page someone, who might have the phone
in his pocket (My mother did this when she was getting weak, becaue
there was no phone in the living room and it was unneeded effort to go
to the kitchen to answer the phone. Also if she wanted to make a call,
she had the phone), but if not, he can walk to the nearest beeping
phone and talk on it, via intercom.

I take intercom to mean not going outside the house, or at least not
using the telphone company lines. And page to mean just what it says.

My uniden with 3 cordless remotes says that they will all talk to each
other even during a power failure. Like a walkie-talkie. It's just
me too, and I wish I had a bigger family so I could use this paging
feature. I wish I owned a business so I could buy more hi-tech office
equipment.

[RosemontCrest]

On Jan 3, 3:42 pm, onegkaufman2_at_gmail_dot_...@foo.com (gman) wrote:
> gman had written this in response tohttp://www.thestuccocompany.com/maintenance/Cordless-phone-intercom-p...

>  :
> Aaron,
>
> I would be grateful to learn if you found a true paging/intercom cordless
> phone system.  Like you were several yrs ago, I am most frustrated in
> looking for this feature.  My kids and wife scream thru our house.  This
> is not rocket science.  Thanks so much.
>
> Best,
> Glenn

> onegkaufm...@gmail.com

The Uniden TRU9485 has an intercom feature with a distinctive ring. I
can ring any handset or the base station individually, or all phones
on the system. It appears that Uniden no longer makes this model, but
the two-line TRU9466 seems to be available. I think that both models
are expandable to at least 10 handsets.

http://www.unidendirect.com/itemlist.cfm?cattype=prd&catid=53&cat2=54

[Tony]

Yes, exactly!

> That's a nice feature to have for the boss. He just presses your
> intercom number and without saying anything, he/she can hear everything
> that is being said in the room.

When a room is being listened to it first makes a two tone sound.

[ScottK]

replying to AZ Nomad, ScottK wrote:

> aznomad.3 wrote:
>
> On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:42:16 +0000, gman
<onegkaufman2_a...@foo.com>

> Better yet, pretend you're civilized. Don't reply if some asshole
> screams across the house. If somebody doesn't come downstairs at
> dinnertime, go on without them.

My, my. Aren't we the judgmental jerk?

--

[ScottK]

replying to AaronJSherman, ScottK wrote:

The old Motorola MD670 (2003) series phones had this feature, it was
called "global page" and it was awesome. The phones had some other
problems but I used mine until I couldn't get batteries for them.
Motorola dropped out of the cordless phone business for awhile and when
they came back to the business, their new models dropped this feature.

I've been waiting for this simple feature to be included in *any* phone
since. It's amazing that no one has implemented this.


--

[Home^Guy]

ScottK wrote:

> My, my. Aren't we the judgmental jerk?

Says the fool replying to a 4-year-old post.

[Retired]

You mean like this unit ?

http://www.uniden.com/cordless-phones/3-handset-dect-60-cordless-phone-with-digital-answering-system/invt/d17803g

where the info says:
"Use the intercom feature to talk between handsets. "

[Home^Guy]

Retired wrote:

> You mean like this unit ?

Now we have 2 doorknobs continuing a 4-year-old thread.

[Stormin Mormon]

Which is noticably different than the ancient OP's
idea of intercom.

--
.
Christopher Doorknob Young
Learn about Jesus
www.lds.org
.

[Stormin Mormon]

At least he's not a moaners hub webbie, or a
top poster, or a Stucco Site webbie.

--
.
Christopher A. Young

[ScottK]

replying to Retired , ScottK wrote:

> Retired wrote:
>
> You mean like this unit ?
>
http://www.uniden.com/cordless-phones/3-handset-dect-60-cordless-phone-with-digital-answering-system/invt/d17803g
> where the info says:
> "Use the intercom feature to talk between handsets. "

No. Almost every cordless phone allows you to page and talk between
handsets like that. The page we're talking about is not a beep, but a
verbal announcement.

The Motorola unit I spoke of allowed you to hit "Global Page" from any
handset and then whatever you said into the handset would be broadcast to
all other idle handsets (loudly, in speakerphone mode.)

As in the example of the OP: "Dinner is ready, everyone come and eat."
could ring through the house.

http://www.motorola.com/mdirect/manuals/MD671_User_Manual_E.pdf


Scott.

--

[ScottK]

replying to Home^Guy , ScottK wrote:

> "Home" wrote:
>
>
> Now we have 2 doorknobs continuing a 4-year-old thread.

And a third doorknob who doesn't realize the question is STILL valid after
four years and therefore worthy of discussion.

--

[Bob F]

Stormin Mormon wrote:
> On 3/17/2014 10:08 PM, Home^Guy wrote:
>> ScottK wrote:
>>
>>> My, my. Aren't we the judgmental jerk?
>>
>> Says the fool replying to a 4-year-old post.
>>
> At least he's not a moaners hub webbie, or a
> top poster, or a Stucco Site webbie.

Or a recently refomed longtime top-poster.

[Stormin Mormon]

Those are the WORST!!!! Lower than dirt!!!

.
Christopher A. Young
Learn about Jesus
www.lds.org
.

[Robert Green]

"ScottK" <caedfaa9ed1216d60e...@example.com> wrote in
message

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> The old Motorola MD670 (2003) series phones had this feature, it was
> called "global page" and it was awesome. The phones had some other
> problems but I used mine until I couldn't get batteries for them.

2X Cordless Home Phone Battery for Motorola MA560 MA561 MA580 MA581 MD550
MD670

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2X-Cordless-Home-Phone-Battery-for-Motorola-MA560-MA561-
MA580-MA581-MD550-MD670-/171162314992?
pt=US_Telephone_Batteries&hash=item27da11a8f0

--
Bobby G.

[ScottK]

replying to Stormin Mormon , ScottK wrote:

> cayoung61 wrote:
>
> Which is noticably different than the ancient OP's
> idea of intercom.
> --
> .
> Christopher Doorknob Young
> Learn about Jesus
> www.lds.org
> .

Mr. Young, Did you actually *read* the post? The ancient OP indicated he
wanted a unit that had the features of what he considered an intercom:

>>> Now the frustrating part is that what I grew up calling an intercom
>>> was a device where you pressed a button and spoke and anyone near the

>>> other stations (or a target station) would hear your voice...

Which is *exactly* what I was describing.

Now, after rekindling my hope, I started poking around and found out that
indeed, the more recent versions (5.8 Mhz) of the Panasonic lines had a
feature they called "True Voice Paging" that did exactly this! I was
excited and figured I'd check into the 6.0 DECT phones. Amazingly, in the
6.0 phones, they have removed this feature! I found several sites selling
panasonic phones that list True Voice Paging as a feature but on the
Panasonic site, the specs for same model numbers do NOT. My guess is the
retailers can't imagine Panasonic removing the feature or they're just
cutting and pasting the specs from a previous model.. Or both.

I went to a Fry's Electronics nearby and went through every Panasonic DECT
6.0 phone -- no Voice Paging. Not just Panasonic, either -- none of the
DECT 6.0 phones had Voice Paging. So, off to ebay for me...

Scott.

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[ScottK]

replying to Robert Green , ScottK wrote:

> robert_green1963 wrote:
>
> "ScottK" <caedfaa9ed1216d60e...@example.com> wrote in
> message
> <stuff snipped>

> 2X Cordless Home Phone Battery for Motorola MA560 MA561 MA580 MA581 MD550
> MD670
>
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2X-Cordless-Home-Phone-Battery-for-Motorola-MA560-MA561-
> MA580-MA581-MD550-MD670-/171162314992?
> pt=US_Telephone_Batteries&hash=item27da11a8f0

Thanks for the link, Bobby!

I wish I'd had that years ago. My Moto system is long gone.

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[Robert Green]

"ScottK" <caedfaa9ed1216d60e...@example.com> wrote in
message news:b7b4f$5329d7aa$cf3aab60$96...@news.flashnewsgroups.com...

You're welcome. Don't you have a "resurrection box?" That's where I put
things like your Moto phone to await their magical self-repair. Don't
laugh, I've had a number of devices that have "healed" themselves after time
in the box. Of course, an equal number of things have *stayed* dead, but a
50/50 revival rate isn't bad. (-:

--
Bobby G.

[Tekkie®]

Robert Green posted for all of us...

And I know how to SNIP

> You're welcome. Don't you have a "resurrection box?" That's where I put
> things like your Moto phone to await their magical self-repair. Don't
> laugh, I've had a number of devices that have "healed" themselves after time
> in the box. Of course, an equal number of things have *stayed* dead, but a
> 50/50 revival rate isn't bad. (-:
>

Can I come over and live in the box? Would it give me a better chance? Is
there any conversion or donation involved? Long term contract? Does it
involve freezing/nitrogen? I don't want to live outside the box. How big is
it? Is there a franchise opportunity? Are you going to be on the ID
channel? I'm serious. Others need not apply. Post no bills.

--
Tekkie

[CCK10]

replying to Robert Green , CCK10 wrote:
I see that this is now a 7 year old thread, but I am trying to solve the
same problem.

Is there really no solution to wanting to create an intercom where someone
can speak into a base station or handset and essentially have the
speakerphone function turned on by the receiving handset without that
person pressing any button? I am open to any kind of solution: cordless
phone, stand-alone intercom, iphone app with dedicated old iphones.
Any other solutions found to this?
Thanks
CC

> robert_green1963 wrote:
>
> "ScottK" <caedfaa9ed1216d60e...@example.com> wrote in

> message news:b7b4f$5329d7aa$cf3aab60$96...@news.flashnewsgroups.com...
> MD550
>
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2X-Cordless-Home-Phone-Battery-for-Motorola-MA560-MA561-

[esl...@minols.com]

More time has gone by - but I am looking for the same thing. A cordless phone with "voice paging" or what panasonic used to call "Auto answer" on extensions.

I found the same thing - old specs for the Panasonic cordless DECT range that claimed true voice paging, but I downloaded the manuals and it isn't there.

thanks

[Buffbuh]

replying to AaronJSherman , Buffbuh wrote:
FOUND IT!!!!:

http://telephones.att.com/products/product_detail/3249

ATT TL96151

Has what they call Connect-To-Cell AND Push-To-Talk! To talk to any ONE or
ALL other phones!!!

Spent the span of a day or two to find it. I'm going to try it out once
the set arrives.

So happy to find it!

Manual here:
http://cdn-media-att.vtp-media.com/media/p/document2/products/%7BB2FACB4A-6B72-47B8-897E-0AB3213F1C39%7D/TL96151_CIB_i2.0_20150811.pdf

Bryan

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