READER John Buchanan tells of a friend who recently bought a cordless DECT phone system from Phillips, which includes several handsets linked to a single base station.
The instructions told him that when the phone was in use a small telephone-shaped icon would flash in the corner of the LCD screen on the handset. So when he wanted to make a call on the extension handset he checked the icon to make sure it wasn’t flashing. But when he tried to dial out, all he got was a message telling him his phone was in use. He tried again but…
