This has caused some disparity in the usage of the term "cordless", for example in Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications.

This standard is based on the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) standard.

DECT, for Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, is a European standard that is only now beginning to take hold here.

DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications)

It includes four ethernet ports, two USB 2.0 master, Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications and a built-in firewall.

Next month, Philips will introduce its first phones in the United States, and they will use a new standard, Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT), to improve call quality and security.

Long Range, Excellent Clarity and Greater Security: DECT 6.0 (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) technology lets you move freely around your home with long range and amazingly clear sound.

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT), known as Digital European Cordless Telephone until 1995, is an ETSI standard for digital portable phones and wireless data transfer.

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (Digital European Cordless Telecommunications), usually known by the acronym DECT, is a digital communication standard, which is primarily used for creating cordless phone systems.

Wideband Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, or simply WDECT, in mobile telephone technology, is similar to Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT), except that it is a frequency hopping protocol.

There are also 2 types of dual mode phones which use cellular radio which will contain GSM/CDMA/W-CDMA as well as other technology like IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) radio or DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) radio.