Even though the doro arc 5r1 cordless telephone is a dect telephone it is also extremely cost effective as well as the doro arc 5r1 is dect it uses a digital signal between the base station and the cordless walk around handset this ensures that the doro arc 5r dect has excellent sound quality and range doro dect with answering machine built into the base station of the doro arc 5r dect is a digital answering machine with a recording time of 15minutes the controls are very simple and easy