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boombox · 25th Mar 2018, 7:24 pm

Definitely calling the same number, as verified by my iPhone's list of called numbers.

Interestingly I've tried to 'catch my line out' this weekend and have been calling it as often as I can be bothered/remember and a couple of times when I've telephoned, a GPO 746 wall telephone we have in the kitchen has sorted of 'vibrated' and then done nothing. No other phones in the house, ancient or modern, then ring.

We have:
- A Panasonic cordless handset
- A GPO 746 telephone
- A GPO 746 wall telephone

So we're not overloading the line in terms of REN...

But I guess I have a lead, now. The calls do seem to be arriving at my line but then something is preventing any handset, modern or vintage, from recognising the line is in fact ringing.

25th Mar 2018, 7:24 pm	#4
boombox Pentode Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK. Posts: 152	Re: Calling the old BT technicians... *Definitely* calling the same number, as verified by my iPhone's list of called numbers. Interestingly I've tried to 'catch my line out' this weekend and have been calling it as often as I can be bothered/remember and a couple of times when I've telephoned, a GPO 746 wall telephone we have in the kitchen has sorted of 'vibrated' and then done nothing. No other phones in the house, ancient or modern, then ring. We have: - A Panasonic cordless handset - A GPO 746 telephone - A GPO 746 wall telephone So we're not overloading the line in terms of REN... But I guess I have a lead, now. The calls do seem to be arriving at my line but then something is preventing any handset, modern or vintage, from recognising the line is in fact ringing.