Landline Phone Query

[thickoeric]

When I pick up my phone to make a call I hear the engaged signal instead of the dialling tone but it doesn't prevent me from making and receiving calls. I expect this means that a caller has left their phone off the hook but is there anything I can do to remedy this?

[Zacs-Master]

'I expect this means that a caller has left their phone off the hook'

What caller? I thought you were he.

[pinkyboyid]

Are you sure that it is an engaged tone?

Maybe it could possibly be a tone indicating a phone message is waiting, for example via a BT or Orange phone message service.

[kloofnek]

means you have a message...

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds like an issue back at the exchange. You could notify BT and ask them to check it.

[thickoeric]

No, Zacs-Master, I meant the someone who had called ME !!!

If it is a message waiting from BT, etc. how would I pick it up?

[pinkyboyid]

I believe you dial 1571 on the BT service.

[kloofnek]

same for Virgin landline...1571..if you have a pin,it will ask you to enter it .Your message can then be listened to.The blips will stop after you have done this

[thickoeric]

Many thanks for everyone's advice.

[boxtops]

If someone calling you hadn't hung up, you wouldn't be able to dial out. It must be a message.

[douglas9401]

You have ONE...new...message. Message receive on ?? Press one to hear the message, two to save the message, three to delete. :)

[thickoeric]

It didn't occur to me that it might be a message on 1571 because I cancelled 1571 a year or so ago and now have an answerphone and so don't understand why some messages are coming through on 1571 again.

[Smowball]

Yep, if somebody had called you and then left their fone off the hook you wouldnt be able to dial out. YOu just dial 1571 to hear msg and it will clear it. Thats what I have.