Weird Phone call in the middle of the night

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gcorgnet

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Topic # 97137 11-Feb-2012 09:36
Hi there, Calling to all the phone network and paranormal experts to try and help me figure out what happened! Last night, at about 3am, we receive a call from France on our landline. After telling off the caller for waking us up at 3am, they let us know that they thought WE called them as the phone rang on their end as well... They are family so we have no reason to doubt them... Facts that might help (or not): - This person had tried to call us on our landline at about 9pm the night before but even though or phone was ringing, when we picked up, we were hearing weird noises. In the end, we called them on Skype.. - Our phone has a "night" feature that should prevent it from ringing between say 23:00 and 07:00 so I am not sure why it actually rang at 3am... Does anyone has any clue as to what might have happened so I can satisfy my curiosity? Thanks, Guillaume

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Reply # 580088 11-Feb-2012 09:51
Unfortunately I have similar behaviors between 11pm-5am, from indian numbers prefixed +80. Annoying in the extreme! And no real way of stopping short of moving to a reliable VoIP service (yet to find one) or the more choption option of turning the ringer off. ________ AK Works for Vodafone

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Reply # 580089 11-Feb-2012 09:52
Perhaps someone with a misconfigured money saving phone card feature? Hard to know really... Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

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Reply # 580096 11-Feb-2012 10:12
antoniosk: Unfortunately I have similar behaviors between 11pm-5am, from indian numbers prefixed +80. Annoying in the extreme! And no real way of stopping short of moving to a reliable VoIP service (yet to find one) or the more choption option of turning the ringer off. "yet to find one" That hurts my feeling Antonisk, you know we are always happy to service our TCL friends Yes I am a employee of WxC (My Profile) ... but I do have my own opinions as well

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Reply # 580099 11-Feb-2012 10:17
maverick: antoniosk: Unfortunately I have similar behaviors between 11pm-5am, from indian numbers prefixed +80. Annoying in the extreme! And no real way of stopping short of moving to a reliable VoIP service (yet to find one) or the more choption option of turning the ringer off. "yet to find one" That hurts my feeling Antonisk, you know we are always happy to service our TCL friends I thought Broadsoft was so reliable I even named one of my chickens Broadsoft. She is a good layer! *Need help configuring your Linksys ATA or IP Phones for New Zealand? Check my blog post

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Reply # 580103 11-Feb-2012 10:24
maverick: antoniosk: Unfortunately I have similar behaviors between 11pm-5am, from indian numbers prefixed +80. Annoying in the extreme! And no real way of stopping short of moving to a reliable VoIP service (yet to find one) or the more choption option of turning the ringer off.? "yet to find one" That hurts my feeling Antonisk, you know we are always happy to service our TCL friends? I think he was meaning he could not find one as he is only allowed to look in one place (no names) :-) Chorus has spent $1.4 billion on making their ADSL broadband network faster. Why not spend a couple of hundred to make sure you are getting the most out of your connection? Geekzone special price: $150* for master splitter install, normally $200+ through your ISP. Auckland and Waikato areas. *Travel charges may apply. Additional costs may apply for complex installs. I install - Naked DSL, DSL Master Splitters, VoIP, RBI Rural Broadband. Also a dealer for WorldxChange. Need help in Auckland or Waikato? Click my email button, or email me direct: [my user name] at geekzonemail dot com

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Reply # 580107 11-Feb-2012 10:33
Argh that explains it Frazer, that must be the reason Yes I am a employee of WxC (My Profile) ... but I do have my own opinions as well

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Reply # 580121 11-Feb-2012 11:07
sbiddle: maverick: antoniosk: Unfortunately I have similar behaviors between 11pm-5am, from indian numbers prefixed +80. Annoying in the extreme! And no real way of stopping short of moving to a reliable VoIP service (yet to find one) or the more choption option of turning the ringer off. "yet to find one" That hurts my feeling Antonisk, you know we are always happy to service our TCL friends I thought Broadsoft was so reliable I even named one of my chickens Broadsoft. She is a good layer! Lower layer or upper layer?

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Reply # 580124 11-Feb-2012 11:18
coffeebaron: maverick: antoniosk: Unfortunately I have similar behaviors between 11pm-5am, from indian numbers prefixed +80. Annoying in the extreme! And no real way of stopping short of moving to a reliable VoIP service (yet to find one) or the more choption option of turning the ringer off.? "yet to find one" That hurts my feeling Antonisk, you know we are always happy to service our TCL friends? I think he was meaning he could not find one as he is only allowed to look in one place (no names) :-) back on topic folks.... debating the relative 'service' offerings of the tier 1's is a bottomless pit of opportunity, and still won't answers the OP's questions... ________ AK Works for Vodafone

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Reply # 580130 11-Feb-2012 11:32
For both phones to have rung at the same time would probably mean a smart service from either one of your phone providers would have initiated the calls, most likely the best way to see which service caused it is see who gets billed for it. Then you can take it up with the provider who billed. Is that back on topic .... Yes I am a employee of WxC (My Profile) ... but I do have my own opinions as well

gcorgnet

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Reply # 580139 11-Feb-2012 12:03
maverick: For both phones to have rung at the same time would probably mean a smart service from either one of your phone providers would have initiated the calls, most likely the best way to see which service caused it is see who gets billed for it. Then you can take it up with the provider who billed. Is that back on topic .... Good point. Thanks for that. I will have a look to see who gets billed. Thanks

hamish225

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Reply # 581144 13-Feb-2012 22:41
obviously your house has spirits in it and they want you to talk to your family over in France more but got the time a bit wrong... clearly the only logical explanation.

gcorgnet

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Reply # 581198 14-Feb-2012 08:26
hamish225: obviously your house has spirits in it and they want you to talk to your family over in France more but got the time a bit wrong... clearly the only logical explanation. Thanks for your valuable input.