Bad reception on my landline?

Question

for some reason my landline phone has bad reception, I can hardly hear what the person im talking to is saying and they have the same problem. It echos the sounds in the room and squeals if you turn the sound up....I've tried three different makes of phone and they all do the same thing....aparantly its not a fault with the line..

I only have one phone socket in the house.

We have the TV in one corner then a bay window then the phone by the door, the one im using now is a crodless one and its supposed to be digitally enhanced as the one before it I couldnt hear a thing...

I have tried one with a cord as well but that was worse...at least with this one i can take it upstairs to a quiet room and i can sort of hear them...

Answer 1

The Echo is most likely caused by the timing being off on one of the trunks( a group of lines tieing Central Offices). When a call is routed outside of your local providers switch it hits a trunk line and goes through a mulitiplexer and is broken up into small bits of data and sent across and is then rebuilt on the far end. This is know as TDM (Time Domain Multiplexing) When the time is off a little it cause a echo on the line sometimes.

As far as the squeling on the line it could be a couple things, is there anything close by that maybe causeing interference.

Radio tower or the likes. If so some of the circuits going to that tower could be tied into the same cable as your phone line. If the cable is damaged anyway or had a bad splice in it. The pairs could be touching eachother adding voltage, and other noise to the line.

The phone company should come out and at least check your line up to the house. Try and make sure you are there when they do this so they can show you that there is either nothing wrong to that point or that there is a problem. If there is no problem with the line to that point then the problem lies with the inside wireing of your house. You can pay them to check it or a local telephone contractor. I suggest local telephone contractor, it will be cheaper and same quality of work. Expect to pay at least 40 dollars for contractor to do this or 100 dollars for your phone company. Also when the telephone comapny sends a Tech out make sure you can show him what is happening. It makes it easier to troubleshoot when we got a better ideal whats goin on.

Hope that helps yea

Answer 2

Is it a cordless? if it is its seems to be a reception problem{IE} weak signal area, to prove this put an ordinary wired phone into the socket and see if the reception is normal, I keep my landline fixed phone in a another socket, for emergencies.You could try your cordless in a friends house> Can I just say as an ex bt engineer for 30 years , I know when you have the line tested by bt from there test eqpt It does not mean the line is ok< for certain faults there are bad connections which causes noise and bad transmission,and do need a visit from an engineer.

Answer 3

same happened here when we moved to wales, i stopped using the landline and just used the mobies, the landline sounds alot better now, I think its corrected itself after the storms of late

Answer 4

there is defanitly a fault keep on at your provider for a engineer to come out and look into it!!!

Answer 5

is your phone near the telly or other electrical equipment?. this interferes with reception.

Answer 6

in that case, you gotta call the phone company....you pay them, don't you...so let them fix it!!!