TALKING NON-CELLULAR TELEPHONES IN ISRAEL INFO PLEASE THANKS

[Ricky Lomey]

Shalom v'Chanukah samayach

For a while now I have been interested in the idea of talking phones, not
cells or switchboards, also in the concept of a miniature land line. Please
note I am not promoting any products here in terms of advertising but just
mentioning what I've come across so far and wondered what Israel has like
this. I think in England there seem to be such like talking cordless phones,
I have also
been interested in the ZTE S188 model which is from China and seems to be
the same size as a mobile and has such capacities and smart phone capacities
on a contract though not for prepaid where it only has phone and SMS. Not
sure which technology this would use in Israel, here in South Africa it is
used by Neotel which is the competition to Telkom which is our equivalent of
Bezeq, Neotel uses some Israeli technology and offers call rates to Israel
but not sure what the closest technology in Israel would be to it, so I
wondered what Bezeq has in phones for the blind, seems Telkom has nothing
though I once heard they did but I can't get hold of any. Not sure if ZTE
has an
office or distributer in Israel but the phone is like a land line with land
line number but it also reads back to one with
speech, Neotel calls it the VIP phone for visually impaired and I'd prefer
it to a mobile so hope to get and check one out but it'll be prepaid in my
case for now, calls are cheaper than both mobile and the main land line
services though prepaid is more than a contract, in South
Africa one is not charged for receiving calls, only for making. Other phones
such as the Chinese CST, not sure if CST has contacts in Israel though I'll
ask a guy who is involved here and Neotel's others are cordless too but are
the same size as the Neotel other phones not ZTE and same size as normal
land lines, too big to carry around, in
England there are talking cordless phones but the issue with cordless is the
radius of the signal. For my emails I use Iburst which is I suppose kind of
wireless, based on the American Raycom, not sure what the equivalent in
Israel would be though I understand they use some Israeli parts, though I do
not have their WI FI package and they use Panasonic
cordless phones which are smaller than mobiles yet I found the buttons more
managable and pocket size but again radius is the issue and they don't talk
so I didn't get one. Anybody have any experiences with any such phones?


Ricky Lomey