[BUGA] Multiline DECT phones?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

Last December I got what appears to be a lightning strike on my phone
lines, and one of the ringers on my (dual-line) phone failed.  Looks
like I need a new phone.

What I want to do isn't trivial:

- One phone for home phone number and office phone number (two
  different lines).
- Both have a VoIP connection, so they each go through a Sipura
  SPA3000.
- I want a headset at least for my office phone, preferably wireless.
  Could be Bluetooth.

Clearly I could meet most of these requirements with a replacement
phone of the same type.  But it's pure analogue, so it doesn't have
any wireless headset capability.  Also, this would mean that I'd have
to rewire things for elsewhere in the house.

Instead, I've been looking at the DECT specification.  It looks as if,
at least in theory, it can satisfy all my requirements.  I could by a
multiline base station, handsets and headsets, or handsets and
headsets that can connect to two separate single line base stations.

And that's the problem.  According to the DECT spec, GAP should allow
handsets to connect to any base station; but that doesn't mean that
all handsets support GAP, and also not that they'll make it easy to
connect to more than one base station at a time.  Trawling the net
hasn't helped much.  Does anybody know about these things?

Greg
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