"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"NoOne N Particular" wrote in message
Just an add-on question. Is it possible that a neighbors cordless phone
could cause this?


Today, no. Unless he is on the same frequency, but that has pretty much
been
eliminated with modern technology.

Agree:
But it DID happen here several times with older/simpler/cheaper type
cordless phones.
In particular; one customer was complaining "Never made those LD calls!"
and berated the telephone company for false billing!
Then the question was how did customer ABC on street 1 get billed for calls
made by customer XYZ on street 2?
Problem was finally resolved by calling the LD party and asking "WHO called
you"!
Then it was found that both customers had independently purchased cordless
phones!
Two houses somewhat back to back, on different streets bought cordless
phones; just by chance the two had identical (and in those days, fixed)
'channel' settings. The whole thing took some time for the telephone
company, who weren't really involved, to resolve.
I suspect in this era now of greater competition, where the telephone
companies no longer have a monopoly on providing service, the local
telephone company would be much less inclined to spend time on resolving
such a complaint. These days there are so many devices that customers can
buy and just plug in to an existing telephone line there are bound to be
problems. In fact modern telephone equipment is arranged to 'time out' and
disconnect service so that faulty customer equipment does not affect service
to other customers. This is what happened to my neighbour and possibly the
original poster of this thread?