On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:46:05 -0400, llort wrote:

Today I received a call from the telephone company instructing me
that they would be blowing out the phone lines Friday and that I
should wrap each of my phones in a plastic bag so that the debris
doesn't scatter around the house.

I've never heard of this before and am not sure what kind of bag I
should use?
Also will the phone ring or something when they are finished?

No wonder the land line companies are losing business to cell
phones. With ancient technology that needs regular purging it's a
miracle that it works at all.

The cell phone companies only get around this by making your phone
obsolete every few years. If your cell phone is more than 2 years
old, it's already performing not as well as when new, and DOES need to
be blown out.

If you take it to the store your provider runs, they will do this for
you for about 30 dollars. They don't talk about this because it would
discourage new customers.