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If you have phone service and you need to add an addtional jack, it is easier then you think. The hard part is running the phone wire. You will have a small grey box somewhere on your property. That is call the Network Interface. There is a phone company side that is lock and a customer side that you can open with a screw driver. In the customer side you will see 2 posts, one red and one green. Inside the jacket of a stand phone line you have 4 wires: red, green, yellow, black. Strip off a 1/4 to 1/2 inch of the insulation on the red and green wires, you can clip the yellow and black flush with the outer jacket. Wrap the exposed wire in a clockwise motion around the posts ( sorry, got a little ahead of myself, first there will be a little phone jack connector, remove that…this disconnects you from the phone network. The reason you do there is because the phone line has -48v dc standby voltage. It could be a little unpleasent. Then use a screw driver to loosen the red and green posts,) Now retighten the posts. (by the way, run the line before you make connections…will make things much easier. Then open the jack and repeat the stripping and connecting. Now yes, you can call the phone company to do this, but installing jack are not the responsibility. It has not been since the telecommunications act of 1996. So, the will do it, but charge you about $120 to do so. Now if you do not have active phone service, then obviously you need to call the phone company and have the service activated. But you will still need to pull the jacks. Good luck
Just to add to the AT&T guys comment, your inside phone wire to your jack will either have four wires (green, red, black, yellow) or six or eight wires (white/blue, blue/white, white/orange, orange/white, white/green, green/white and if eight wires white/brown, brown/white). You will only need two wires depending on the type of inside wire you have purchased – either green and red or white/blue and blue/white. These are connected at both ends – at the grey telephone company box and at the phone jack.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
the phone company does that.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
If you have phone service and you need to add an addtional jack, it is easier then you think. The hard part is running the phone wire. You will have a small grey box somewhere on your property. That is call the Network Interface. There is a phone company side that is lock and a customer side that you can open with a screw driver. In the customer side you will see 2 posts, one red and one green. Inside the jacket of a stand phone line you have 4 wires: red, green, yellow, black. Strip off a 1/4 to 1/2 inch of the insulation on the red and green wires, you can clip the yellow and black flush with the outer jacket. Wrap the exposed wire in a clockwise motion around the posts ( sorry, got a little ahead of myself, first there will be a little phone jack connector, remove that…this disconnects you from the phone network. The reason you do there is because the phone line has -48v dc standby voltage. It could be a little unpleasent. Then use a screw driver to loosen the red and green posts,) Now retighten the posts. (by the way, run the line before you make connections…will make things much easier. Then open the jack and repeat the stripping and connecting. Now yes, you can call the phone company to do this, but installing jack are not the responsibility. It has not been since the telecommunications act of 1996. So, the will do it, but charge you about $120 to do so. Now if you do not have active phone service, then obviously you need to call the phone company and have the service activated. But you will still need to pull the jacks. Good luck
January 27th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Call your phone company.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Just to add to the AT&T guys comment, your inside phone wire to your jack will either have four wires (green, red, black, yellow) or six or eight wires (white/blue, blue/white, white/orange, orange/white, white/green, green/white and if eight wires white/brown, brown/white). You will only need two wires depending on the type of inside wire you have purchased – either green and red or white/blue and blue/white. These are connected at both ends – at the grey telephone company box and at the phone jack.