• vithigar@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    I’m not sure what you mean by “disguised as a doorbell”. It’s for controlled access buildings where you need to be able to talk to the person at the door and selectively admit them.

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        8 months ago

        Because the whole fucking reason was to reduce costs, since everyone is going to have a landline anyway.

        My building is like this, it was built in the 60s the concept of multiple phones in a house hold was completely unthinkable at the time.