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Want to use the same phone to call grandma on a POTS Line as you do when you talk to your slick tech buddy over in Australia using Skype? Now you can, well you’ve been able to before, but now you can with a Panasonic Cordless operating at 5.8ghz. This frequency is almost a most for anyone with a home WiFi network as other frequencies interfere with 802.11b/g.

Panasonic today brought a new twist to the old-fashioned cordless phone market by announcing it will ship a set of Skype-compatible handsets in the second half of the year. The phones will connect through regular DECT base-stations into the public phone service and via a broadband internet link to Skype’s P2P network.

The KX-TG9000 series lets users choose which way outgoing calls are routed. And it will automatically relay both landline and VoIP calls through to the handset. The phones will not only support free calls between Skype accounts, but also work with SkypeIn, SkypeOut and Voicemail services, Panasonic said.

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