Airway

Advantages: Compact, cordless, efficient
Disadvantages: None

...would be: get yourself an Airway system. To details. The brain of the thing is called the Controller. Thin, not fat, it is a compact 12cm x 18cm and is fitted to the wall near your incoming phone lines and a power socket. The phone line or lines plug into the controller, and there are also sockets for a fax machine and a PC. Extra cards can be bought for ISDN 2e capability and for an answering machine. If your internet/e-mail access is through one ...
...an ISDN card would be a good idea. I would certainly recommend the answering machine card as this capability is then part of the phone system and that's another piece of electronic clutter you can dispense with. The cards are similar in size to PC video or sound cards and are easily slotted into the controller. You don't even need a screwdriver. As I said above, it is powered by a mains socket, but there is a back-up 9V battery in case of a power ... Read review

Advantages: Cordless multi-line cheap phone system
Disadvantages: Getting old - very little support

...have been using the "BT" Airway system for about 5 years now. It is outstanding! No-one else in the UK seems to offer a simple multi-line cordless system which is daft because you can buy them off-the-shelf in the States. Even worse is that the "BT" staff don't know it exists. I use the inverted commas for "BT" because they seem to be Quangos now - our local sales people are "BT Local Business represented by Business Communication Solutions Ltd" ...
...do? Anyway back to the Airway System. My small company has 3 incoming lines (plus a fairly useless separate fax line). My colleagues and I can answer incoming calls from anywhere in our office building without delay and transfer the call as if we were in a regular reception. It's give an excellent and professional impression to the caller. I see that Discom have reduced the starter pack price to £250 - compare that with the £1,000 plus that BT ... Read review