When I bought my house 6 years ago I never activated the landline. I just used cell phone service instead. Now I'm selling it and set to close next week. The buyer will be using a landline. I borrowed a phone and plugged it but I do not hear a dialtone. Is this normal? I was kind of expecting to hear a dial tone. I figured that if I tried to make a call then I'd get an error message. But in this case I get no dial tone at all. I called the local Telcom (Frontier) and it was a disaster trying to get info from their csr's.