Telecom 807 Push Button DECADIC Home Telephone 1986

Telecom Home Telephone

One case is White-Cream & the other is Sandstone case colour

Both phones are identical technically, being the Model 807 DECADIC (Pulse dialling ONLY)

Push Button dial but this is NOT tone signalling, it sends decadic pulses to the exchange - for general use they are fine but if you call a service which requires a response from you (Push 1 for xxx for example) this model will NOT work - it does not send tones.

The telephones were released in the period when Telecom was moving from pulse signalling telephones to tone signalling and finding ways of deleting those rotary dials (remember them? put your finger in the dial and pull it around) and generally reducing costs of manufacture at the same time.

Gone is the old style printed circuit boad with ready access to many points of the circuit

Gone is the bells - now a speaker

Metal frame is gone, this is a totally plastic case which means the phone is quite lightweight

Mid 1980's - one phone does have the manufacture printed as 1986

Remember: Decadic pulse signalling - this telephone does NOT send tones down the line

COSMETIC CONDITION:

Sandstone case/brown push keys: Very clean, a couple of minor scratches but no case cracks - not bad after 40+ years

White-Cream case/cream push buttons: In excellent condition

The handset curly cord is not quite as "springy" as it used to be, those who are old will know about this - when you get old, things go saggy!

Internally, stock standard and no modifications have been made

TESTING:

Supplied with a standard Telco wall plug, plugged it in and then checked outgoing and incoming calls - no problems at all with either telephone

Electronic ringer volume adjustment underneath

Reminder once again - *** these telephones were designed using the original telephone pulse signalling - sending pulses to the exchange to indicate the number you have dialled - these days dual tones are used however Telstra telephone exchanges will still "understand" the phone pulses so this phone will work fine for "normal" dialling of numbers.

HOWEVER these phones will NOT work with modern PRIVATE telephone systems that are expecting to receive tones - example: say you called a large business and the message you get is something like "please dial 1 for customer service, 2 for billing enquiries etc" - this phone will not be able to tell those systems what service you require because it does not send tones.

Fortunately the trend these days is for voice recognition telephone systems, so this type of private phone system will simply say "please state the service you require" - you say "Billing" and it will say "sorry I didn't understand that, did you say zoo? putting you through to the zoo" Don't you love modern technology!

Great functional telephone, a sort of olde world meets new technology - this phone represents a period where telephony technology was in a technological transition from the old pulse dialling to tone dialling.