Téléphone reception

[Coco14]

Thé bars on the phone keep changing all the time.  Most times it remains around 1 and maybe 2 bars.  Exceptionally 4 bars appear but doesn’t stay for long. It suddenly drops to 2.  I live in the countryside (rural area) so I have a land line.  The cellphone is for emergencies,like today.  We had no electricity therefore no phone service.  So I asked the doctor is call on my wife’s cell phone but the doctor was not able to get through.  She left a message on the phone but it did not ring on her phone.  What could be the problem?  Coco14

[NFtoBC]

With the limited information provided, there could be many reasons, including poor connection at time of call, or network issues.

Why does your landline not work during a power outage? Is it because you have cordless phones, or something else? You could obtain a phone which does not need to be plugged into 120 volts for times of power outages.