Greg Cunningham said: >Personally I would be more interested in a cellular phone that would hop to >a private home network signal. >Once you get home (or within a 1/2 mile or so) you the cell phone becomes >an extension in your house. >Would be even nicer if the line went out, and the phone company could >automatically re-route your home line to your cell phone. Dan says: They exist in other places. http://www.dectweb.com/Introduction/answers.htm Oddly not too successful. The UK tried but didn't figure out all sorts of things... Just destroyed the approach while still in the cradle. Anyway, clearly Verizon is heading in the same direction. S L O W L Y Regs, Dan