A cordless telephone or portable telephone is a telephone with a wireless handset that communicates via radio waves with a indelicate station connected to a fixed telephone line, habitually within a limited diapason of its cheap station (which bomb the handset cradle). The disgraceful station is on the subscriber premises, and attaches to the telephone network the same way a corded telephone does.
The depraved station on subscriber premises is what differentiates a cordless telephone from a mobile telephone. Current cordless telephone standards, such as PHS and DECT, have blurred the once clear-cut line between cordless and mobile telephones by implementing cell handover, heterogeneous advanced features, such as data-transfer and even, on a particular scale, international roaming. In these models, disreputable stations are maintained by a market mobile network operator and users subscribe to the service.
Unlike a corded telephone, a cordless telephone needs mains electricity to capability the foul station. The cordless handset is powered by a rechargeable battery, which is charged when the handset sits in its cradle.