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Old 01-11-2016, 07:30
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If I take my landline phone to another property, plug it in and make a call. Will my phone be charged (my account) or the property owners?

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Old 01-11-2016, 09:28
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You won't be able to make a call until the line has an account associated with it. Most people will tell their telephone provider they are moving. Expect a dead line when you plug it in.
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Old 01-11-2016, 09:34
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If I take my landline phone to another property, plug it in and make a call. Will my phone be charged (my account) or the property owners?

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The account is tied to the line not the phone instrument.

It makes absolutely no difference whatsoever what phone you plug in where. The physical pair of wires connecting the property to the exchange determine both the phone number and the account that would get billed.

And of course if the property does not have a connected phone line you won't be able to use it anyway.
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Old 01-11-2016, 11:02
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What a silly question.

You might as well have asked, "If I take my kettle, microwave and toaster to my new property, will I still use the electricity provided by my old property?"
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Old 01-11-2016, 11:44
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What a silly question.

You might as well have asked, "If I take my kettle, microwave and toaster to my new property, will I still use the electricity provided by my old property?"
May be silly to those that are aware of how the telecoms network works. But if you are used to the concept of a mobile phone handset working anywhere (well almost anywhere) and always billing the same account it's not too great a leap to think a landline phone might work in the same way. In other words the number and account are tied to the phone instrument and not the line.

A lot of office IP based phone systems work like that, ie you can plug a phone into any port anywhere on the same network and it will come up with whatever number it was programmed with regardless of whether it's physically in Cornwall or the Shetland Isles, if you have network presence in both locations.
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Old 01-11-2016, 11:58
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May be silly to those that are aware of how the telecoms network works. But if you are used to the concept of a mobile phone handset working anywhere (well almost anywhere) and always billing the same account it's not too great a leap to think a landline phone might work in the same way. In other words the number and account are tied to the phone instrument and not the line.

A lot of office IP based phone systems work like that, ie you can plug a phone into any port anywhere on the same network and it will come up with whatever number it was programmed with regardless of whether it's physically in Cornwall or the Shetland Isles, if you have network presence in both locations.
Thank you for the support.

If I flatshare and there is a landline present, I can plug my landline phone in and the bill would charged to the person who has registered the line. Am I correct? and the number would be common. Hence an incoming call would ring both phones.

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Old 01-11-2016, 12:09
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Thank you for the support.

If I flatshare and there is a landline present, I can plug my landline phone in and the bill would charged to the person who has registered the line. Am I correct? and the number would be common. Hence an incoming call would ring both phones.

Best wishes.
It depends on how the property has been wired up.

There is nothing to say that you can't have your own private landline in your bedroom separate to any other line in any other bedroom and separate to any landline in communal areas.

It is however likely that all sockets are wired off the same line so any incoming call would ring all phones and of course only one of you would be able to make an outgoing call at any one time.

The only person who can tell you what the actual situation is is whoever owns the property and had the phone line installed. Anything else is simply speculation and could be wildly inaccurate.
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