I think that 10kv on a phone line would make the bell coil vaporise, rather than ring. A solid state phone would surely have no chance of ringing, unless it had bloody good overvoltage protection ;)
Maybe we could try this on the lines into telemarketing call centres ?
----------------------- Electrician's mistake kills 2, injures 13 in southern Azerbaijan
30 September 2009 [12:17] - Today.Az An incident has killed 2 and injured 17 in the Azerbaijani southern region of Jalilabad (200 km outside Baku).An electrician of the Jalilabad region electricity distribution network connected 10,000-kV electricity transmission line to the telephone line while fixing electricity transmission line in the region's Badamagaci village.
As a result, telephones rang at 30 houses simultaneously. The electric strike killed 18-year old Orkhan Badirov and 64-year old Dilshad Jafarova who took the telephone.
A total of 13 injured people were taken to the hospital. They were discharged after initial medical aid. The Jalilabad region prosecutor's office is investigating the case.
The Jalilabad Region Prosecutor Mobil Ismayilov said the 10,000-kV electricity transmission line fell on the communication line at 20:00 on Sept. 29 and all telephones rang without break at houses of the Badamagaci village. Over 10 people who took the telephone at that time were injured.
Two of them - 18-year old Orkhan Badirov and 64-year old Dilshad Jafarova died at the hospital.
Ismayilov said the case is under investigation.
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