Dial Tone Cant Dial

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  • mmowre
    Aspiring Member
    • Jan 2014
    • 1

    Dial Tone Cant Dial

    can anyone explain why I can get a dail tone on but cant dial. When I dial out nothing happens. Tried to change out with known working phone and still no luck.
  • thiel2
    Genius
    • Apr 2013
    • 365

    #2
    Many systems require that you dial a digit (such as 9) before the outgoing number. Are you dialing that?

    And, the 2nd dial tone that you hear after dialing the 9 is not the dial tone from the phone company, but generated by the phone system. It does this for your "comfort", but it is really capturing the digits that you dial, and routing them out over specific lines. The actual lines may be dead.....

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