{"id":43,"date":"2010-08-20T12:52:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmctelecom.co.uk\/news\/?p=38"},"modified":"2021-11-12T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:01:17","slug":"what-does-gap-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m2staging.pmctelecom.co.uk\/blog\/what-does-gap-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does GAP Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"last-updated\">Last updated on November 12th, 2021 at 06:01 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>GAP&nbsp;Compatibility<\/strong> is essentially an agreement between the different phone manufacturers to make their DECT cordless handsets work with one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For example,<\/strong>\u00a0You have a GAP Compatible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmctelecom.co.uk\/telephones\/cordless-phones\/dect-cordless-phones\/?manufacturer=312\">BT Diverse system<\/a> which is nearly 10 years old, but one of your handsets has been dropped and won&#8217;t work any more &#8211; you like your BT Diverse and don&#8217;t want to replace the whole system, but the same handsets aren&#8217;t available any more. \u00a0With GAP you could purchase any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmctelecom.co.uk\/telephones\/cordless-phones\/additional-digital-handsets\/\">additional <strong>GAP compatible<\/strong> handset<\/a> regardless of the manufacturer (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmctelecom.co.uk\/telephones\/cordless-phones\/dect-cordless-phones\/?manufacturer=3\">Panasonic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmctelecom.co.uk\/telephones\/cordless-phones\/dect-cordless-phones\/?manufacturer=53\">Gigaset<\/a>, BT etc) and register it to your existing BT Diverse system. Saving you the cost and hassle of replacing all of your phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Things to note:<\/strong> Gap Compatibility ensures that the handset will register to your existing base unit and will make and receive calls &#8211; other functions such as call transfer, caller ID, phonebook transfer etc are not guaranteed to work due to software on different handsets and manufacturers being different. \u00a0Due to the thousands of possible combinations of handsets available, this is not something anyone could advise on without testing the exact units together, however, it is more likely that like-for-like manufacturer handsets will allow these features to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-pmc-telecom wp-block-embed-pmc-telecom\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AaxHnwcpUC\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmctelecom.co.uk\/blog\/top-10-best-cordless-dect-phones\/\">Top 10 Best Cordless Phones For 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Top 10 Best Cordless Phones For 2021&#8221; &#8212; PMC Telecom\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmctelecom.co.uk\/blog\/top-10-best-cordless-dect-phones\/embed\/#?secret=AaxHnwcpUC\" data-secret=\"AaxHnwcpUC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-pmc-telecom wp-block-embed-pmc-telecom\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"eKoONzCE1D\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmctelecom.co.uk\/blog\/what-does-dect-mean\/\">What Does DECT Mean?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;What Does DECT Mean?&#8221; &#8212; PMC Telecom\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmctelecom.co.uk\/blog\/what-does-dect-mean\/embed\/#?secret=eKoONzCE1D\" data-secret=\"eKoONzCE1D\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAP\u00a0Compatibility is essentially an agreement between the different phone manufacturers to make their DECT cordless handsets work with one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[137,136,178,135,100],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.3 (Yoast SEO v21.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Does GAP Mean? 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