Texas/New Mexico Stateline | I don't know if it is the same, but our area had a similar problem a while back with mobile phones of different stripes that weren't connecting to landlines.
They would call and the caller would hear ringing and ringing, but the landlines were not actually ringing.
Apparently after some investigation, there was some loopholes the communication industry had found where they were diverting calls that were not profitable, and not allowing them to connect. It was a known issue the government was aware of, but was going to take legislation to fix. The local co-op phone companies' hands were tied as it was the big telecom companies that were not letting the calls through.
It was very frustrating for folks, because they were trying to call their elderly relatives on their landlines and couldn't get through.
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