Recently, I had dinner with a friend who travels a great deal for his job as an academic physician. He mentioned to me that when he gets to a hotel, he calls the front desk to set up a backup wakeup call in case his phone alarm fails to wake him at the right time. Within the past few trips, any time he’s tried to accomplish this menial task, he’s found that while there is a phone in his room, there is no dial tone when he picks up the receiver. It doesn’t matter why there’s no dial tone – any phone without a dial tone is a clear violation of Kari’s Law.
