The telephone company terminates their line in a small plastic box mounted on a wall just outside your home. It can cost you a bit to pay a technician to lay the wiring from the box to a telephone outlet inside your home. Wiring a single-line telephone is not a difficult task and doing it yourself can save you some cash.
- Trace the telephone cable that runs from the utility pole closest to your home to a small plastic box that the lineman mounted on a wall just outside your home. The box is known as a network interface device (NID).
