All Of a Sudden Telephone Interference?

I have a UFO styled Airport Extreme base station linking a Mac PowerBook Pro, a G3 Breadbox, an older Dell PC and via USB, an Epson printer. This system has worked almost flawlessly for nearly two years, but now problems are occurring.
The wireless printer link has failed repeatedly and can no longer be re-established. The printer works fine when hard wired via USB to any of the compurters.
Within the last two months our 2.4gHz cordless telephone has begun interrupting the Airport signal. As soon as the telephone rings in its base or is turned on the Airport signal is lost. The situation is worse with the MBP and the PC. Both are farther from the base station and the phone is usually close to line of sight between either computer and the base station. The Airport link is re-established as soon as the telephone is turned off.
My question is; Could the base station be gradually failing? It was purchased used and I have no idea of its history.

My question is; Could the base station be gradually failing? It was purchased used and I have no idea of its history.
It's possible, but most likely the problem is Wi-Fi interference from operating a 2.4 GHz device within range of your 802.11g (also 2.4 GHz) AirPort. Before attempting to replace either the base station or cordless phone, I suggest that you consider changing radio channels on both (if the phone supports this) to the "opposite" ends of 802.11g band: 1 & 11 or 1 & 14 if outside the US.
Note: This issue is NOT unique to the AirPort and can happen to any manufacturer's wireless device operating in the same radio band as the cordless phone.
Your other option is to ditch the 2.4 GHz phone and get one that operates in either the 900 MHz or 5 GHz band ... or, of course, use a corded phone.

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