Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) is a cordless telephony standard maintained by ETSI. It originated in Europe, where it is the common standard, replacing earlier standards, such as CT1 and CT2. Since the DECT-2020 standard, it also includes IoT communication.
Gigaset A165 phone with base station. In DECT terminology, the phone is the 'portable part' (PP) and the base station the 'fixed part' (FP)
DECT pulse duration measurement (100 Hz, 10 ms) on channel 8
A cordless telephone or portable telephone has a portable telephone handset that connects by radio to a base station connected to the public telephone network. The operational range is limited, usually to the same building or within some short distance from the base station.
Two cordless telephones
3 VTech cordless landline phones