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How do you install a phone line?
Wiki User
August 05, 2011 8:00PM
You find out where the phone line enters your house and then you run a wire from there to where your phone will be located. It requires two wires which to an old-timer are called Tip and Ring. Usually red and green on a 4-wire connection. Run to a standard phone jack and plug-in your phone.
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