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Which type of home phone do you prefer: cordless or line? One risk with cordless phones is that someone nearby with the correct frequency (even using a FM radio) can pick up your entire conversation.

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I walk when I talk, so I have to use a cordless phones. I didn't realize that someone could pick up your phone conversation, but that makes sense, its an open frequency. The corded phones always end up tangled and in a mess. Then when I have to hand them up, I sometimes don't get it all the way on the hook and it falls. To many of those incidents leads to buy a new phone. That doesn't happen with cordless phones, so I stick to them.

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Many of the newer digital cordless phones (with the spread-spectrum label) are frequency hoppers, and can't be intecepted without fairly sophisticated equipment. Most older non-digital cordless phones can be picked up with an inexpensive radio scanner; your conversation is being broadcast in the clear.

I personally use a corded phone. I never use wireless.

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I do not use cordless phones because of the scanner prowlers. Many cordless phone users are unaware how many people use scanners to pickup the police, pilots and yes, you on the phone! Just imagine your private conversation out to Joe Public.

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I actually use a cordless phone all the time. I don't even own a phone with a cord. If the power goes out, I am just without. I do not worry much about people trying to listen in on my telephone calls. Mainly because as I fight with all of the time, I have a hard enough time getting my phone to talk to the base without static, much less make it to the street or someone's home. The clarity would have to stink badly.