{"id":2535,"date":"2010-10-14T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T01:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2010-10-14T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T01:18:29","slug":"phone-non-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/14\/phone-non-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Non-repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Called AT&amp;T this morning to get someone to come out to check my dead phone line. He got here at 5:00 and tested the outside line and found it to be working. At that point he could have charged me $55 to diagnose that it was a short somewhere inside with my lines. Instead he was nice and wrote the order up as corrosion on the outside. I switched out a connector I had in my room and my phone line worked fine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2536\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair01-lo-res.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2535]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2536\" data-attachment-id=\"2536\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/14\/phone-non-repair\/phonerepair01-lo-res\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair01-lo-res.jpg?fit=720%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1287102989&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;34&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.076923076923077&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PhoneRepair01 lo-res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;AT&#038;T van&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair01-lo-res.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair01-lo-res.jpg?fit=570%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2536\" title=\"PhoneRepair01 lo-res\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair01-lo-res-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair01-lo-res.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair01-lo-res.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AT&amp;T van<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2537\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair02-lo-res.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2535]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2537\" data-attachment-id=\"2537\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/14\/phone-non-repair\/phonerepair02-lo-res\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair02-lo-res.jpg?fit=720%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1287101127&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PhoneRepair02 lo-res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Checking the outside lines&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair02-lo-res.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair02-lo-res.jpg?fit=570%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2537\" title=\"PhoneRepair02 lo-res\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair02-lo-res-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair02-lo-res.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PhoneRepair02-lo-res.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Checking the outside lines<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Called AT&amp;T this morning to get someone to come out to check my dead phone line. He got here at 5:00 and tested the outside line and found it to be working. At that point he could have charged me $55 to diagnose that it was a short somewhere inside with my lines. Instead he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/14\/phone-non-repair\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-ET","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10335,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/12\/12\/lines-no-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":0},"title":"Lines No More","date":"December 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"AT&T was out in force in our neighborhood again this morning, even though it was raining pretty hard. They already had taken down most of the phone lines heading to the houses and today they were busy removing the telephone pole rungs. Guess I'll have to find somewhere else to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Miscellaneous&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ATT01-12-12-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5853,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/04\/05\/phone-2-phone\/","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":1},"title":"Phone 2 Phone","date":"April 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Transfered all of my contact information from my old T-Mobile Dash to my new (and temporary) LG Sentio. Not exactly an iPhone (yet), but way better than my old Windows Mobile 5.0 phone. But for some reason it won't vibrate. 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