I need to cut the phone wires but keep Internet alive.

[Nate Silvers]

Every month my mum is calling mobiles and the phone bills are over £120. I'm sick of paying them, today she said it's £125 and she's not paying it I don't care.

Is there any wires I can cut in the phone socket to disable the phone but keep the internet alive?

 

[tom_e]

No, they use the same wires. You may be able to phone your provider and get them to bar outgoing calls though.

 

[Brian8bit]

Why are you paying her phone bills?

 

[Puppetmaster]

Why not get her a cheap contract phone with a high number of minutes / texts and get her to use that instead?

 

[lookitsjonno]

get a kiddy lock on the line

 

[PermaBanned]

Why do you live with your mam if you can pay the bills?

 

[Hastarius]

Don't pay them, let them build up and have her face the harsh reality of what she is doing and how much she is wasting on phone bills.

She needs to learn!

 

[Azza]

Why are you paying the bill if its her making the call?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

You can dial a code in to the phone to block a certain number, all numbers expect emergency and freephone, or just block all outgoing numbers.

http://www.slough.info/slough/s02/s02bt2.html

e.g. dialling *261# will block all outgoing calls (maybe incoming, not sure)

 

[Nate Silvers]

lol cause she can't afford to pay them and she always says she won't call mobiles but I've had enough now the last 5 bills have been huge. I don't even have a job so I'm scraping by on baked beans on toast.

it costs like £2 to block a number, every phone bill on Kingston Communications

 

[2bit]

This sounds tantamount to child abuse - my finger is hovering over the big red ChildUserReporter button on my phone right now.

 

[jamief]

lol cause she can't afford to pay them and she always says she won't call mobiles but I've had enough now the last 5 bills have been huge. I don't even have a job so I'm scraping by on baked beans on toast.

it costs like £2 to block a number, every phone bill on Kingston Communications

Have you considered going on Jeremy Kyle?

 

[Adam_151]

Its technically possible, you could build a filter to block lower frequency voice use, but allow high frequency ADSL use (almost like the reverse of a microfilter)

Even just adding series capacatance might work... or even a tiny break with the air between acting as a die-electric (heard of that one before, the tests indicated the was a break in the line and nothing should work... ADSL worked, voice didn't)

 

[Talon]

Replace your master socket with an nte5 and super glue the phone jack closed

 

[Parmesan]

Unplug the phone... Take it away, throw it in the bin!

 

[alex24]

Unplug the phone and say you cancelled the phone contract but kept broadband.

Not sure if serious to be honest.

 

[Luke]

Move out.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

You can dial a code in to the phone to block a certain number, all numbers expect emergency and freephone, or just block all outgoing numbers.

http://www.slough.info/slough/s02/s02bt2.html

e.g. dialling *261# will block all outgoing calls (maybe incoming, not sure)

I'm quoting myself as it fixes your problem, without any mucking about.

 

[UK-AL05]

Doesn't this create a 999 issue?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

No, all emergency numbers aren't covered by a block.

If in doubt, use *341# which blocks all calls except emergency numbers.