A Bluetooth-wireless docking station for use with a Bluetooth-enabled
cellular mobile handset, which docking station allows mobility to the
cellular mobile handset rather than having to be fixed stationarily in
the docking station, which docking station couples standard POTS
telephone sets, or POTS-like telephone units, connected to in-premises
wiring, to the cellular, or cellular like, network. The cellular mobile
handset may be used to make or receive calls remote from the docking
station, while the docking station communicates with the
Bluetooth-enabled cellular mobile handset via a Bluetooth-wireless
transceiver using Bluetooth-wireless air-interface protocol. A
subscriber-line interface circuit, controlled by a microprocessor,
couples the standard POTS telephone sets to the cellular mobile handset's
transceiver whereby the phones may make or receive calls via the
cellular, or cellular like, network, which subscriber line interface also
provides loop current, ring signaling, dial tone, loop current detect,
flash detection, DTMF conversion, and other central office functions to
the telephone sets. As long as the cellular mobile handset is within
range of the Bluetooth-wireless transceiver of the docking station, the
telephones are connected to the cellular network, as long as the cellular
mobile handset is not engaged in a call of its own. The same docking
station is capable of accommodating and being paired with any of a
wireless-enabled TDMA-based, GSM-based, CDMA-based, or AMPS-based
standard transceiver.