A friend of mine got a summer internship under his father working for the telco. He is working at the switch, connecting wires to other wires.
Not too long ago, he tells me about how he 'accidentally dialed 911 to a house whose line he was working on, twice.' How do you accidentally dial 911 twice? He says, with a bad connection (on a buttset), his father and he have seen random numbers dialed, and they call it phantom dialing.
Now, I find this completely ludicrous. It's a bit much to call the guy a liar--at the worst, he could be trying to impress me as he knows I'm all about the mf'ing phone sys--but seriously. It couldn't be MF signalling, because a bad connection doesn't produce such high frequencies and especially not two of them at once that happen to coincide with paradigm used by phones; so it would have to be miraculous pulse dialing.
But what are the chances of a bad connection modulating between 0 and 1 for the right periods, especially to dial a number as high as nine? Has anyone else heard about this, know anything about it, seen it with your own eyes?
