Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT), known as Digital European Cordless Telephone until 1995,'s an ETSI standard for digital portable phones (cordless home telephones), commonly used for domestic or corporate purposes. It's recognised by the ITU as fulfilling the IMT-2000 requirements and thus qualifies as a 3G system. Within the IMT-2000 group of technologies, DECT's referred to as IMT-2000 Frequency Time (IMT-FT) DECT was developed by ETSI but has since been adopted by many co… (More on Dect)