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Thread ID: 47448 2004-07-26 23:07:00 ot/Muting the first 2 rings of a phone metla (154) Press F1
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255616 2004-07-27 10:15:00 > Alrighty,i have a person in need of a little
> help,they have a mentally unbalanced stalker who
> rings the phone contantly,then hangs up after the
> second ring,Happens day and night and has been going
> on for years,police have been involved numerous times
> as have telecom,and they are back to square one.

How sure are they it is a stalker?

We had a problem with our phone in that it would ring once or twice and then stop. Pick it up and no one was there.

Turns out it was a fault with the jack point. It had liquid in it and also some ants had mad a small home in there. People ringing would get 1 or 2 rings and then it would hang up on them.

It took 2 weeks to work this out and Telecom sent out a guy to fix it in the end.
Big John (551)
255617 2004-07-27 10:39:00 "It took 2 weeks to work this out and Telecom sent out a guy to fix it in the end."

It shouldn't have taken Telecom that long if they were involved. Very, very common type of fault. The change to 2 wire jacks incorporated many small changes to reduce the chances of this happening. Phones can also go low insulation around the ringer cct and cause this to happen.
PaulD (232)
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