It led me to suspect that I could construct a perfectly acceptable videophone for children by gluing a face mirror to a conventional phone.

Though this procedure will make the process more complex, it could swell the numbers of subscribers eager to untether themselves from conventional phones.

This allows you use a conventional phone to place and receive calls, with no need to leave a computer turned on.

People like Rosa Marta, who had been waiting years for a conventional phone from the local telephone company, jumped at the chance.

The plans also include unlimited incoming calls from conventional phones to the Witel subscriber no matter their geographic location.

None of the disposable models will require a contract for service as conventional wireless phones do.

She had been waiting years for a conventional phone from the local telephone company.

You receive your own phone number, and calls from conventional phones can reach you when you are logged in.

Still, consumer interest in the service, which can send data up to 40 times the speed of conventional phones, has been disappointing.

But VoIP is different: you dial and talk using a conventional phone.