When the system was dialup only, for a while it lived at SusanC's house. I moved into where I live now with the intent of moving the Cellar in once I was set up. But little did I know that my house was outside the "philadelphia metro calling region" - a zone where people could, roughly, call without toll charges.
I called Bell and worked with them to set up call forwarding from Susan's house to mine, for 7 lines. They weren't supposed to forward multiple lines in a hunt sequence (where a busy signal routes the caller to the "next" phone line), but I talked the guy into doing it even though technically it was a hack and only semi-legal. That way, people could call Susan's house, inside the toll region, and it would forward to the Cellar, 3 miles away. I had to pay for 7 phone lines at both locations and permanent call forwarding.
We actually had to "busy out" the lines at Susan's house to get it to work - make it look like the lines were in use. To accomplish this, we permanently shorted them out by twisting the ends of bare telephone wire, and plugging them into the phone sockets.
I wrote the Bell service center a long letter telling them how great their service guy was to work with me to set the whole thing up. Six months later I called him back with a question... he had been promoted.
