Is there any way to Block Outgoing Calls on a Landline Phone?

[Boomwebsearch]

Hi LinusTechTips community,

 

I am wondering if there's any solutions available to block outgoing calls on a home landline phone (we need to stop ordering take-out)?

 

 

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions,

 

@Boomwebsearch

[Nathanpete]

The answer is different for every single phone, especially landlines. 

 

Here is a quick solution: Discipline yourself and everyone else that is a jackass ordering takeout. Unless there is a good reason to be afraid of slapping them (as in they will slap you back and do it harder) then you shouldn't be scared to protect your money from others abusing your landline and wallet by ordering takeout. And even if u can't slap them, find a way to non-physically discipline them from ordering takeout. Somebody will prob find another way to order takeout from another phone, and u shouldn't not disconnect the phone in case of stuff like calling EMS. 

[Dutch_Master]

Put in a pay-phone. Everyone that calls a non-emergency number needs to pay to make a call. You take the proceeds

[Boomwebsearch]

7 minutes ago, Nathanpete said:

The answer is different for every single phone, especially landlines. 

 

Here is a quick solution: Discipline yourself and everyone else that is a jackass ordering takeout. Unless there is a good reason to be afraid of slapping them (as in they will slap you back and do it harder) then you shouldn't be scared to protect your money from others abusing your landline and wallet by ordering takeout. And even if u can't slap them, find a way to non-physically discipline them from ordering takeout. Somebody will prob find another way to order takeout from another phone, and u shouldn't not disconnect the phone in case of stuff like calling EMS. 

4 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

Put in a pay-phone. Everyone that calls a non-emergency number needs to pay to make a call. You take the proceeds

 

It's quite unfortunate that there's so many options out there to block incoming calls and manage internet traffic on your home network, although you can't control the calls being made on your phone. People don't want to call using their cell-phone since it takes up minutes, maybe a pay-phone is a good solution, although they're too expensive to think about making any profit (especially if it's only one household), is there any DIY way to make a pay-phone?

 

https://www.payphone.com/Personal-Pay-Phone.html

[Nathanpete]

1 minute ago, Boomwebsearch said:

It's quite unfortunate that there's so many options out there to block incoming calls and manage internet traffic on your home network, although you can't control the calls being made on your phone. People don't want to call using their cell-phone since it takes up minutes, maybe a pay-phone is a good solution, although they're too expensive to think about making any profit (especially if it's only one household), is there any DIY way to make a pay-phone?

 

https://www.payphone.com/Personal-Pay-Phone.html

This question is simple enough u can google it yourself. How many people do you think are A) On the LTT forum right, B) will see this post, and C) Know how to make a DIY pay phone. Chances are 0. Bc if there was 1 you would likely already have a response from that person bc they are knowledgeable. 

Sry if this response seems a little toxic. 

[Boomwebsearch]

2 minutes ago, Nathanpete said:

This question is simple enough u can google it yourself. How many people do you think are A) On the LTT forum right, B) will see this post, and C) Know how to make a DIY pay phone. Chances are 0. Bc if there was 1 you would likely already have a response from that person bc they are knowledgeable. 

Sry if this response seems a little toxic. 

 

All of the one's I can find are having to take an old/broken payphone and putting in new internals to make it functioning again, I thought that it may be a fun side project and I completely realize that it could be easily bypassed if someone just plugged in their own landline handset, btw if I was able to research and find some information it probably means that I know how to and have done my homework before asking to avoid potentially wasting anyone else's time. I appreciate your responses, although please feel 100% free to not respond to any thread or post if you don't wish to, the LTT forum is completely voluntary.

 

https://www.instructables.com/id/Payphone-in-the-Home/

[Nathanpete]

7 minutes ago, Boomwebsearch said:

All of the one's I can find are having to take an old/broken payphone and putting in new internals to make it functioning again, I thought that it may be a fun side project and I completely realize that it could be easily bypassed if someone just plugged in their own landline handset, btw if I was able to research and find some information it probably means that I know how to and have done my homework before asking to avoid potentially wasting anyone else's time. I appreciate your responses, although please feel 100% free to not respond to any thread or post if you don't wish to, the LTT forum is completely voluntary.

 

https://www.instructables.com/id/Payphone-in-the-Home/

I understand, I was intrigued by the title of the post when I saw it in the recent topics sidebar. I read the rest of the OP, and then was kinda disappointed at the reason for why you were looking for a solution. I remember asking a similar question where the reason was really disappointing when I was a noob in computers (a freshman in HS). I was trying to do some trickery with windows settings, maybe a little CLI/batch files, now I know I could just replace the front panel IO in the case. Little did I know the problem I had was not something that could be fixed with windows, but was actually something hardcoded into the windows kernel and CPU/mobo. (Except for the fact that it could be fixed on a laptop, which is prob why I was confused back then)

 

I just didn't think about a DIY pay phone at all as a solution and I thought of an old school, zero cost solution that if u put in enough effort it would work. 

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Off Topic

 

Too low-tech subject You could ask phone company to block the numbers.