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Does a cellphone have a dial tone? Mobile cellphone never have a dial tone. Before the cellphone came into common usage, a dial tone on a landline told you that the line was available; however, it is ...

Today is National Landline Telephone Day, marking the date when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call in 1876. The invention gradually became ubiquitous, and today we’ve all got phones in ...

My phone is dead/no dialtone, but my internet runs fine over verizon dsl in state college PA. I have a long wire running from the wall jack to my room (I live in a fraterntity house) about 100 yards.

One late night many decades ago, I chanced upon a technical description of the Touch-Tone system. The book I was reading had an explanation of how each key on a telephone sends a combination of two ...