How are Cell phones and house phones alike?

Answer 1

A house telephone is connected to a network by a physical connection of wires over land that join all landlines together to a central network provider (think SBC or Verizon), while a cell phone receives it's connection without a physical connection and instead connects basically like a radio receiver with antenna towers on the ground called repeaters that echoe a broader signal to a more specific local area. (Simple answer: house phones are connected by wires and cell phones are connected without wires-like radios)

Answer 2

A land line is any phone in a building (and pay phones too) that are plugged into a phone jack and use telephone wires to transport calls. It can also be a service like Vonage that uses the internet to transport calls. Cell phones use signals that are transported by towers and don't use phone lines or the internet.

Answer 3

You get more features with a home phone, especially if you have broadband internet and can get a broadband phone service. You can have features like

• Follow Me Service
• 3 Way Conference Calling
• Voicemail
• Fax Enabled Voicemail - Receive Faxes
• E911 Service
• Call Hold
• Music On Hold
• Caller ID/Call Waiting Caller ID
• Free Long Distance
• Free Second Line (2 calls on same number)

Plus many more for as low as $14.95 per month. That includes unlimted calling.

Answer 4

Both phones can make calls, and with some house phones you can see the history of the people you've called, like a cell phone. But you can't text, take pictures or video, play games, and get internet on a home phone, and you usually can on a cell phone.

Answer 5

A regular telephone is basically stationary where a cell phone is mobile. Even if you have a cordless phone, the signal will only reach so far. A cell phone you can use anywhere there are towers.

Answer 6

House phones are for use in your house, and cell phones are for use outside of the house, when you are not near a house phone.

Answer 7

You can place and receive calls with both cell phones and house phones.

Answer 8

They have their advantages and disadvantages. cellphones are very easy to lose.

Answer 9

Well, cellphones can do much more than calls. However on a house phone, or 'landline' when you call 911 iy is tracked immediatley, but with cellphones, they don't know where you are.