Home Phone - Easiest way of Communication

If you remember there was a time when people used to write letters to communicate with their relatives and friends. As the technology came into existence, it started to revolutionize the field of communication. Thanks to the invention of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell who made it possible that two persons can communicate with each other even if they are far apart geographically. Despite of being quite expensive and high call rates, these phones were used in homes and offices. It was considered to be a status symbol.

Today, there are so much competition between phone manufacturers that they are trying their best to provide phones with more advanced features and stylish looks at an affordable price. There are many types of phone available in the market - home phones, cordless phones and latest are mobile phone. Home phone is the first one to come into existence. This phone works on a very simple method. First of all, radio signals are converted into electrical signals, which are converted into sound with the help of decoder. The home phones are connected to the telephone towers through the wires. There are various service providers who handle these telephone towers.

Due to the launch of mobile phone, home phone sales has gone down to some extent, but they could not clear the home phones from the market because of their low cost and strong connectivity even in rural areas. Leading phone manufacturing companies has introduced so much advanced features like speaker service, SMS service, Caller ID and video conferencing in their home phones that they are competing with mobile phones. Being stable device, these phones are commonly used in homes and offices.