House phones not working no out or in coming calls

Check connections that come into the house. Possible bad phone. Call the company

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Contact your house phone service provider and request Call Screen or Call Blocker. Ask the representative for the activation date for the feature.

2 Pick up your house phone on the activation date and listen for the dial tone. Dial "*60" on the phone's keypad. Rotary phone users should dial "1160" instead.

3 Enter the number to block when prompted by the system. Re-enter the number to confirm that you want to add the number to your blocked callers list. Hang up the phone.

Are you in the USA? If yes ... continue ... if no ... I can't help you, but you are welcome to read on, it may fit.

Disconnect a telephone (preferably one that does not require external power) and go to your DeMark (a gray box where the phone line enters your home). Open it up - you will need a screw driver. Inside you will see a RJ-11 plug in arrangement. Unplug it and plug your telephone in.

Does it work? Yes = you have a phone inside your house that is "off hook". Find it and hang it up. Can't find one off hook? Unplug everything on all telephone jacks in your house, computers, fax, telephones, everything. When the dial tone returns, plug the devices in one at a time until you find the bad device.

No, the phone does not work = Phone may be faulty (try another telephone)

OR,

... there is no service coming to your house. If you have a cooperating neighbor, take your telephone to their house and try it. If it works at their house, it has to work at your house. If your phone is known good and there is no dial tone at the DeMark, call your service provider.

Follow the procedures found in the front of your telephone book ... that yellow thing in the kitchen that no one uses ... that it the telephone book.

There may be other reasons your phone doesn't work ... but start with my suggestion. If the phone company comes and the trouble is in your house, it will cost you according to the current tarrif ... see the phone book for details on this.

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My experience with an old (100+) and newer house is that it is important to make sure your telephone wires coming into the house, and the junction block where all the wires connect, stay clean and dry. If the wires can get damp or dirty, then when that 90 volts of ringing voltage come down the line, it may find a low impedance path. At my old house I had to make sure the outside wires didn't touch the ground or get damp. In my newer house, I discovered the wiring block was near a dryer vent where it got a ton of fuzz on it, plus the moisture, so eventually our phones stopped ringing even though we could make calls and our DSL was not affected. When we exposed and cleaned up the wiring block so that the phone company tech could re-visit us to troubleshoot things, suddenly it started working again.

Find where you line comes into the house. hook the phone up there if there is still a problem its not your phone or system. Call your phone company they have a problem in their line. If the phone does work OK then you will have to start isolating your extension jacks to find which one is shorted.

In the alarm system there was a jack called an RJ31X. This jack is suposed to have the line run from the teleco interface to it and then back out to the rest of the house(except for DSL, it stays ir front of the alarm jack). When the alarm jack was cut out the line bridge was eliminated. To make the line active find the wire that went to the alarm jack and and connect the red wire to the yellow wire and the green wire to the black wire. that should pass the line through to the remainder of the jacks in the house.

is it on ringer try turning it off and unpluging it

Does the static stay on the line after the called party answers?Is the static on incoming and outgoing calls on any phone?if the answer is yes to the above questions,check your house jacks for corrosion.There are a number of things that can cause static inside your house and outside.From the interface box on your house where the wires come from a pole or from under ground is phone company problem.From the box into the house is your problem,so the easy solution is to make the phone company come out and determine from what side the static is coming from.There is usually no charge for this unless you have them come into your house if the problem is there.
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Answer it and say "Hello, who's calling".

Works on all mobile phones and house phones.

it sounds like you may not have any dial tone in the house. some phones have a light come on when the phone isn't recieving dial tone.[in your case the anntena] you can try plugging a corded phone into different jacks in the house.there maybe a box [called a nid] on the outside or in the basement/garage where you can plug a phone directly into it bypassing all the jacks in the house [there could be a problem in the house] if still no dial tone ,call your phone company

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