On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 11:11:17 -0400, "J.B. Wood"
wrote:

Hello, all and a new POTS Verizon problem:

My OP about the ability to receive incoming but not able to dial out or
have the calling party hear the called party was explained as a faulty
2-wire/4-wire interface issue which I understood. I had called Verizon
service and the phone was restored to normal operation after about 4
days. I don't know exactly what was done (if anything). Phone service
has been OK for about 2 weeks.

Last Sunday that same phone line displayed a new symptom - no dial tone
but the DTMF keypad produces audio and there is noise on the line (like
what you hear between entering the digits of a phone number).
Attempting to dial the problem phone number from a cell phone resulted
in a busy signal. It wasn't an off-hook situation as you could hear a
definite switching action when a phone on the problem line was taken off
hook. Ditto for any one of the 3 extensions sharing the line. This
morning, Monday, the phone line was operating as expected. Very
mysterious goings on here. Sincerely,

Did it rain just before your phones stop working? I went through the
scenarios that you describe for years with AT&T before the tech. told
me the buried line had water in it and that they won't replace it. Had
to go to an internet phone service.

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