[ale] OT: plethora of cell phones

[Geoffrey]

Joe wrote:
> Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>Mike Lockhart wrote:
>>
>>>Any cellphone or landline phone, with service or not, its mandated by
>>>the FCC to provide 911 service.  You can walk in to a 40 year old house
>>>that has not service on its lines, plug up a phone, and promptly call
>>>911.
>>
>>I would beg to differ on the 40 year old house.  If you do not have
>>dialtone, you will not get connected to anything.
> 
>  
> If you plug a phone into a landline with no service, you *should*
> get dialtone. If you dial anything but 911, you get the local
> phone company's service representative. (At least that's how
> it worked in the last two locations I've lived, El Paso, TX and
> LaGrange, GA.)

My latest experience would be my existing home.  I moved in about 1.5 
years ago.  There was dial tone when we first viewed the house, but that 
was because the previous owner was still paying for service.  Shortly 
there after, I checked the phone line when we had the home inspected and 
it was dead.

Previous experiences have been the same, but those experiences were over 
15 years ago, as the homes I lived in between this one and then were new 
homes, no previous owners.  Those homes did not have dial tone until I 
contacted the phone company to set up services.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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