Regular dial-tone disappearance

sometimes i get dial-tone but mostly not. When i don't - my corded phone does not work even in the test socket.
Is there any way my BB/BT vision could cause this to happen.
I do not seem to have a problem with incoming calls except that they can cut me off if i am already on a call.
if i receive an incoming call when there is no dial tone, i will then have a dial tone for 10 minutes before it goes again.
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High and welcome to the forum.
It sounds like you have a high resistance fault on you line, this can clear with an incoming call. Do you get the same issue when you plug a known working phone without an ADSL filter into the test point of your main socket?
If you do you will need to report the problem to your comms provider, if it is BT give them a call on 151 from a BT line or 0330 123 4151 from a mobile.
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