Hello there - I'm not sure if this is in the right forum or not but anyway.

Our house phone used to be on BT, but late last year we changed to AOL Talk. When we were on BT, we had a lock on the phone that ment we couldn't make outgoing calls without putting the code in (It was put in place because my sister was making way too many calls). Since we have changed to AOL Talk, you do not need to enter a code to call a number meaning my sister is let loose on the phone again, all she wishes.

Is there any way we can still have this lock on the phone while on AOL Talk?

Thanks

Yes, fit a Commtel Phone Guard to each phone socket in the house.

We don't want to have to add all the numbers into a device that we want to call; thus this is irrelevant to my question.

I beg to differ.

Commtel Phone Guards may be inexpensive devices - but they're more clever than you appear to have realised.

They can be overriden (by anyone who knows the number) with a user-programmable (and remotely changeable) 4-digit code number. Essentially, that's the same as you had on BT.

You could leave it at that if you wanted and, for a one-off cost, you'd then have a PIN -protected line like you had before.

However, if you wanted to use the device's capabilities more fully, you could program it with the leading digits of the numbers she is allowed to call (or, perhaps, the full number - even the full mobile number - of the one person she is allowed to call).

If, for example, you programmed the device to allow calls to numbers starting 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, then all local calls would be allowed (but nothing else).

If you then programmed the device to allow calls to numbers starting 01234, then all calls to numbers in the 01234 STD code area would be allowed as well.

So, it's not a question of adding 'all the numbers' - it's a question of adding the leading digits (or the full numbers) of the few which are allowed and not entering the ones which aren't.