mark lewis wrote to Robert Bashe on Monday July 09 2018 at 13:14:

RB>> I have had ISDN for the last 21+ years, and believe me, you DO! get a
RB>> dial tone.

ml> take your POTS phone, not an ISDN phone or any other ISDN related
ml> equipment, outside and connect it to the bare wires coming into your
ml> facility and tell us if you get dial tone on them as i described...

I use analog phons and have done so since I started telephoning. The bare wires
into the NTBA naturally give no dial tone, since they do not carry a phone
signal accessiblke without a TK-Anlage (in the case of ISDN). What you sggest
would be like hooking up an analog phone to a 220>V power line somewhere.

Cheers, Bob

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