Posted on 09/12/2016 7:02:46 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
At my office, we had to dial 9 to get out (and then 1 for long distance) so it happened all the time.
Have had a handful of editorial published in the local paper, all conservative in nature. I think I’ll work on the phone lines first, but that thought has crossed my mind.
This happened to me. Turned out to be water getting into the phone demarc (the box on the side of the house) when it rained. Sealed it up and no more visits from the local Sheriff.
The third time it happened, my wife and I were “busy” during a nice summer thunderstorm. Talk about a mood wrecker!
That’s exactly what happened to me several years ago. I only use my iPhone now.
Who still has a landline?
Same here, but we had a sales office/warehouse distribution center in the UK and our parent company was in the UK. So to dial the UK it was 9-011-44-etc. We had more than one employee try to dial the UK and end up leaving off the 0 and calling 911. It got to be a big enough problem that IT came around and put stickers on all the phones reminding people to make sure to dial the zero.
After watching the movie “the Town”, I’m skeptical when I hear the words, “Who called 911?”
Yes, years ago we had a cop banging on our door at two a.m.- our second phone line (that came with our internet connection, and had never had a phone hooked up to it) was repeatedly dialing 911. Shortly after that, we dropped our landline completely. We’ve been cell phone only for ten years now, and we’ve never missed it.
Call Frontier daily to “make sure the ticket is still open”. Explain nicely that you understand that sometimes things fall through the cracks in a bureaucracy and you would hate to have to “start over” to get this on-going trouble cleared.
My younger sister had this happen to her earlier in the year. The police would not believe her and said it would cost something like $450 for the call. She argured with them and called the city council people and did not have to pay.
Nice to know this has happened to others.
That can happen more than you might imagine. Split pairs, shiners on binding posts, bad punch downs, bridge taps, skinned insulation, etc., can cause spurious events on copper telephone pairs.
Copper POTS service is so 19th Century, I got rid of my local service 20 years ago.
Happened to me years ago. They blamed the cordless at first, but my batts were good. Then it happened to a neighbor with old school plug in phones.
One thing that contributed was old lines on the poles. The top sides were worn from sun, weather and squirrels. When it rained the moisture got in the wires.
Frontier?
Heh ... it's not just you. I have a very noisy line, and occasional loss of dial tone. DSL still works, even when no dial tone. Frontier is not particularly responsive to calls, and doesn't call to cancel service appointments when they "fix" the problem on their end.
Everything okay? Yes, why? Somebody dialed 911. Is your phone okay? I don't know, let me check. By golly the phone was NOT acting right. I unplugged it from the land line, apologized for the trouble. i told the officer that earlier today there was somebody home (wife was here), but she probably didn't hear the knocking - which is why nobody came to the door.
Phone was a Panasonic KX-TGA233W. I replaced it the next day, with a Uniden. You can bet I will never allow a Panasonic phone to be connected to any phone service under my control. That 3 am pounding at the door really got my adrenaline flowing.
There are some diagnostics you can find on the net that you can run using a phone jack on your computer. They measure line quality, and will give you a reading of how bad it is. Then, check after every repair to see if better. A bad jack in the house, even one not in use can cause line noise. Hook your computer directly to the demark first to eliminate any problem in the house itself, then move inside.
If the problem is not in your house, you will have to build a fire under your phone company, including a written complaint to your state’s utility commission.
Once the line is clean, get a new cordless phone. The frequency specs changed in the last 10 years or so, and the old stuff just isn’t as accurate as the new gear.
I had as problem with my line going dead in the daytime but then started working again at night. The ticket was closed a few times with no trouble found and I had to talk to the Service Center Manager to get them to pursue it. This went on for a few weeks
I was on the cell phone to get status and found that a lineman was working it right then. I jumped in my car and drove out to the main road and finally found a cherry picker truck in front of the Carpet store. I yelled up to the lineman and asked if he was working my trouble. He asked if my number was xxx 9228 and I said yes.
He was proud to say that he had just fixed it. He found my pair was partially open in the binding strip. He pulled my pairs off of the strip and put them together with Scotch locks. He said that when the black aerial cable splice box heated up in the sun it expanded and pulled the wire open. When it cooled off in the evening the connection was made again and service was restored. I never had any problems again and had to thank Southern Bell profusely for their diligence, knowing full well that it would never have been fixed if I had not kept after them.
I used to have an LG Nitro phone. I lost count of how many times that thing dialed 911 from my pocket.
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