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Need a cordless phone system with greeting and ring-through

We need an inexpensive cordless phone system ( like the Panasonic Dect 6 types ) with a greeting and ring-through.

We need a 1-line cordless phone system that can answer with a greeting, tell people to press an extension number from 0-99, and then ring-through to all its cordless phones in the house at once.

This is for a home business where we want to use it to filter out spam sales calls and political robocalls.

Does anyone make such a system?

We're not into RingCentral, Onebox or any of that, for this, because we already have RingCentral simultaneously ringing our home and cell, but these junk calls still come in on our home number. We had one last night at 2:21 AM, some scam or prank call that I see others have had problems with, in web complaints. And we want to filter out ALL robocalls, both sales and political. If they can't press the extension, it doesn't ring through to the cordless handsets.

I don't know if the proper term for this is auto-attendant or just call screening, does anyone know?

Did I mention; "inexpensive"? The Panasonic 5 phone cordless systems seem to run in the $135 range at Amazon.com, but I don't think they have this. ( yet it wouldn't require sophisticated hardware or anything - just firmware, right? )

I called a couple of online places and they all want to sell me $10,000 multi-line business "systems". Please...

We have a little part time home base business with just the two of us.

Is anything like this out yet?

I also face this problem of random calls at all hours of the day and night. If you check sites such as whocallsme, many people have same frustration.

Unfortunately there is no affordable cordless solution with simple auto attendant. There used to be a corded phone around 2000 but that company ceased operation and I can't find a working unit even on eBay. Other solutions such as TeleZapper simply does not work now a days.

I am actually a hardware designer and was thinking about starting a Kickstarter project with this problem in mind.