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How to call your own phone

audiofixer

Phone company repairmen can enter a number, then hang up and that same phone will then ring. This is a way to check a line and to check the loudness of the ring! It's a way to call yourself. Does anyone know that number? I need to help a shutin find a phone which rings loud enough so that he can hear it and it would help to be able to call his phone FROM his phone. Do I make myself clear? I sure hope so!

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armond_in_nj1

@audiofixer wrote:
... I need to help a shutin find a phone which rings loud enough so that he can hear it and it would help to be able to call his phone FROM his phone ...
I don't know the telco number, but I don't see why your (or his, or his son's, etc.) mobile phone wouldn't do the job. Does your friend have, or can someone lend, a cell phone?

audiofixer

No, this is an old fashioned copper wire telephone! The operator I finally rteached earlier today said the number USED TO BE 958, but she wasn't sure if it works anymore. I tried it and It doesn't. My second call was answered by a man who said "Oh, we can't give out that information". What aload of balogna! THIS nonesense is why I will leave Verizon a.s.a.p.

I'm just trying to help a disabled person determine whether the phone I bought for him is loud enough for him to hear it. Of course, there are other ways I can make this determination, but I thought it would be faster to be able to call his number FROM his phone and have it ring while I'm in the room wirth him. Used to be easy, now seems to be "secret knowledge".

I'm sure all the repairman know the number, but it seems none of the regular office emplyees are privy to it. Sheesh!

armond_in_nj1

@audiofixer wrote:
No, this is an old fashioned copper wire telephone! ...

Perhaps my earlier comment was confusing. Do you have a mobile phone ? If so, call his number while in the room. If you do not have a mobile phone, perhaps you can borrow one for a few minutes. This technique should resolve your problem.

audiofixer

Well no, your message was not confusing. Perhaps you find it hard to understand that there are people who don't have a mobile phone and don't want one and don't even know anyone within a ten mile radius who have one! We are what you call Luddites. I guess we don't count - it's called dictatorship of the majority 😉 Anyway, what's wrong with letting customers know how to check their lines? This is a totally harmless thing!

smith6612

The ringback number can vary per location. In some cases though, if you were to dial your own number and then disconnect the phone quickly, it may cause your line to ring and pick up to nothing, which may accomplish what you're looking for. Otherwise what you can try doing is dialing a number (preferably a dead one), flashing over to "another line" and then hang up. That should ring the phones.

On my Frontier telephone line (I an a customer of both Verizon and Frontier), their ringback is as simple as dialing your own number. When the telephone company switch detects what you're doing, it will ask you to hang up the phone. When it detects the phone is no longer off hook, the switch will ring back and you'll simply get an empty call.

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