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From: Frankston@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
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Subject: Re: What's special about AT&T phones in 2 line house?
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Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 18:46:00 EDT
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This sounds like a problem I had.  As I noted in my previous letter to
this list, the problem with a 2-line Panasonic phone in which one line
works and the other doesn't is likely to be that the line is being split
with a mux that seems to also split the voltage such that the second
line as about 16 volts.  The Panasonic interprets this as indicating
that another phone on the line is offhook.