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No More Wireless Headsets

Does anyone else think it’s weird how we switched to a phone system that does not work with wireless headsets? They want to keep the worker bees tied to their desks at all costs!

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Post ID: @OP+1oHCMCOb

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Not sure what you mean. AirPods work with the NICE CXOne MAX phone system (or whatever the heck it's called). Just "add a Bluetooth device" on your laptop and connect the AirPods. That's what I used when I covered the 800 phone line as Branch Overflow during the last couple integration weeks.

I also pair my AirPods to my laptop a lot for Webex/Teams meetings. I much prefer the AirPods for audio/microphone versus the echoey and loud computer speaker system. Much clearer for all parties.

I'm a Financial Consultant, so I don't normally cover the 800 line. In my day-to-day, I use my Schwab-provided iPhone with clients and pair my AirPods with it. I have my office desk phone line forwarded to my iPhone, too, so I use it exclusively.

Even if you are using wireless headphones, you can still only go, what, 30 feet away from the source (your laptop/phone)? Can't go very far. At least your laptop itself is mobile, much better than the old days when we only had desktop computers in the office and couldn't work from home.

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Post ID: @1gbs+1oHCMCOb

Th current wireless headphones use insecure crypto protocols. The transmissions are encrypted using hardware implemented DES, with a 56 bit cipher. This has been cracked several times using brute force attacks. The other problem is all headsets use the sa,e DES cipher. The hardware is hard wired to use a single DES key.

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Post ID: @nvm+1oHCMCOb

My team was also only given the wired headsets, I route the phone calls through my cell phone, I’m not sitting at my desk all day with those things on.

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Post ID: @dyp+1oHCMCOb

This is not true at all.
Wireless headphones work with the Nice Phone System.
Most of my co-workers use wireless headphones.

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