Abstract: A desk or table top mounting for a cradle phone of the type having the dial and the handset. The base or cradle of the phone is mounted by a bracket below a panel. The panel has a plastic sheet forming a cover with a pair of spaced depressions formed in the sheet for receiving the earphone and voice pickup ends of the handset. The cradle is mounted beneath the panel with one end tilted upwardly so that the shutoff button projects through an opening in the bottom of one of the depressions. The phone is shut off by placing the handset in position in the depressions.