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 bound diapason Cordless Phones 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 action a corded telephone does.
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.