On Thursday 15 August 2013 08:10 Andrew Gabriel wrote in uk.d-i-y:
I always thought it was a stupid feature - possibly useful once, but not do much with DECT phones where you could just wander around and not have to "pick up at another extension".
When I was at uni and called home from a payphone, my mum called back (I had insufficient coins). At the end she did not replace her phone right and the call remained connected for quite some time - a lot longer than 3 minutes. More like 30 minutes. This was 1987 +/-