How many times has this happened to you?
You are in the basement doing laundry. Your husband is in the family room watching TV, when the phone rings. You answer it, and invariably the call is for your husband, or perhaps the other way around. Which of the following do you do?
1) set the phone down and go scream at the top of your lungs for your Husband/Wife to get the phone then wait for them to pick up the extension.
2) Call the other extension and transfer the call.
--- Select -- 1 2
Next Question.
You are trying to decide what to get out of the freezer for dinner and you decide to ask your family what they want. Which do you do?
1) Run all over the house and ask everyone what they want for dinner.
2) Call everyone's extension in the house, for a conference call.
You are on the phone with work and someone picks another extension and begins dialing. What happens?
1) You get an earful of Touch Tone signals, until the other person figures out that you were on the phone when they picked it up.
2) This is not a problem, because your extensions are protected with a privacy switch.
You get the phone bill, and find an itemized list of long distance numbers as long as your arm. Your teenage son/daughter has become romantically involved with someone in a long distance telephone billing zone. What do you do?
1) Pay the bill hoping to get compensated by the teenager, and call the phone company and put a block on the offending phone number for a couple dollars a month.
2)Pay the bill hoping to get compensated by the teenager, and program a number block on the problem number into your home phone system.
Your teenage son/daughter spends far too much time on the phone and whenever you need to use the phone, its always in use. What do you do?
1) Have a talk with the teenager and hope they listen.
2) Have a talk with the teenager and hope they listen, and turn on "telephone time limiting" on their extension.
And now the final question.
Are you tired of answering #1 yet? Yes. .
. We are working on changing things with an inexpensive little telephone switching system, designed specifically for use in the home, for families.
Call any telephone company with these problems and they will sell you as many lines as you have phones in your house for prices ranging from $20 to $ 40 per month, EACH
Lately however they have come up with half a solution with the new cordless phones, but it's also an expensive one. Example: $249.99 for the base unit and $169.99 for each extension. And it can't work with other extensions in the house and doesn't have extension security, call blocking, or parental controls. Also it won't work with any other regular phones. So, that $8 phone at your local department store won't work either.
Our system works with ANY phone made for the North American market, cord or cordless. Our system supports up to 8 extensions, has selected conferencing, call privacy, outgoing call blocking, and many other programmable features.
How much would you pay for a system that has these features? Select a value. $500.00 $400.00 $300.00 < $299.99
We should have the first beta units ready for installation 3Q-2000 with the price around $350.00 US$. As production goes up, costs go down, the price will come down too. We are shooting for a $249.95 US$ retail, or less in full production.
Want to know more? Comments, questions, or suggestions.
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