Numbers are very important to lots of human beings, especially men.
With cordless phones, range is the important number, even though it's almost always unimportant. Most people seldom take a cordless handset more than 20 feet from its base. That brings us to an important point. It's that way with cordless phones, too. The advertised ranges are seldom equaled in the real world, and the same phone may behave very differently in two places, or even in the same place on two different days.