One for all you brainiacs out there. For the last few nights, the land line has rung at midnight, give or take a few minutes. Last night, I actually managed to get downstairs and answer it whilst it was still ringing........nothing !
The curious thing is, when I dial 1471, there is no mention of the call. I get details of the previous ' last call ' which was my daughter at about 2030. The answerphone is set to kick in after about 6 rings but these midnight calls don't trigger it and ring for 10 to 15 times. The other thing is, the calls don't make the upstairs phone ring...just the base station in the dining room.
I'll take the base station handset up with me tonight and see what happens. I'm not in bed by then. We have a Gigaset system.
I've been getting the usual crop of daytime stuff, including a few calls ( 2 yesterday ) from phone number 001000000000 ( roughly ). What's all that about ? In spite of TPS membership, two calls from people with Asian voices yesterday asking for my ' house identification number '. Told to go away and scam someone else...but not quite in those words !
Ted
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We had this at a similar time of night a few years ago. BT concluded it was probably some sort of auto dialer associated with a busines system for data transfer and when it received no response it hung up. Anyway it stopped just like that.
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I recall hearing a similar tale, in that instance I think it was an automated BT line tester.
It may be worthwhile getting them to do a check on your line to see if there's a fault that doesn't stop the 'phone from working.
Last edited by: bathtub tom on Thu 28 Nov 13 at 12:33
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Back in the dark ages before email, we used to use faxes to send info around the world. If someone deserved to be wound up you could set the fax machine at work to attempt to send a fax to their home landline. The best version of this was to set it going at about 18.00 hrs on a Friday. It would then re-try every hour or so until Monday morning when someone would take pity...
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I think it is either a phone fault or interference. I doubt that you are actually receiving a call.
Is there anything coincident with it? Someone arriving home, a garage door opener or something?
Does the base unit have an option to set an alarm?
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I can't think pf any one round here with a garage door opener....maybe a car blipper ?
We're not with BT but are on Virgin cable. There's a 'box ' thingy on the pavement about 50 yds away, but within sight. I wondered if it could all be interconnected with that 0010000...no.
I confess that I haven't RTFM for the Gigaset.....I can use the phone...in and out and listen to messages. That's all I bother with !
As said, it'll probably stop in a few days.......it's not really a worry. If there's an emergency in the family or at work ( unlikely ) my mobiles always on....even through the night in it's bedside charger.
We'll see what happens...I expect.
Ted
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You can do a line test yourself via the Virgin website. I did so a few weeks ago co I had no dial tone, followed by an engineers visit. Apparently one of the connections in the street cabinet had been disturbed and it was easily fixed.
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>> I can't think pf any one round here with a garage door opener....maybe a car
>> blipper ?
My car remote fob sets off my friends neighbours musical doorbell. For some strange reason whenever I visit him, he encourages me to check that I've locked my car ;)
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Midnight caller. - Fenlander
