No Dial Tone...

I wish you lived closer. I would send you one of mine to try. Send me your address in a private message.

I don't know it kind of sounds bizarre to me. I sometimes have phone issues here too..It can cause a problem.

No idea. When that happens to me, I just call the customer hotline using my cellphone. A technician would then visit the house and fix the main line across the street.

I know this is an old post and I am sure by now you have had this issue fixed. I am just checking out your posts.

more than one phone there? Maybe a bad jack or phone

You might need to try plugging the land line phone into another outlet. The outlet itself might have corrosion or dust accumulation on it. If you have any other phones connected via a second or third extension outlet and one of them is faulty then the one you are trying to use may be defective or being effected by one of the other phones. If it's a single line phone and the phone works at another house, then it's the outlet but if the phone doesn't work at another person's house then the phone is probably not working properly and that means the phone needs replacing. The telephone company will come into your home and check things out if you have in-line service coverage, otherwise it could cost a lot of money to have their technicians come by to check out all your outlets, your phone and so forth. the outside box might even be defective and most times if the outside box is going bad they can send a tech out to look at it and may not even charge you a cent. But make sure this is the case as to their rates first beforehand.