Customer Reviews

GE TL26190 Telephone In-Line Coupler (White)

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This was less expensive than buying a very long cord because I had 2 fairly long cords from past phones.

Got this cause I have one of those old fashioned retro phones, with the rotary dial. The phone cord doesn't detach and it's not too long, so this little guy made if possible to put the phone far away from the socket. Yay!

Thank you Amazon for having everything I need. I have severe arthritis and find it difficult to walk around a store looking for simple items like this coupler. You make my life so much more easier. Thank you again.

it feels solid and well put together, and it creates a noise free connection. i was pleased with this coupler.

Does what it should at a fair price and white is a standard.
Fast shipping and good packaging.

I own this GE TL26910 In-Line Coupler (white), and form and function work hand-in-hand. It is simple, and has a simple but vital function to match its appearance: to use technical terminology, this item is a female/female adapter (coupler) that takes a male jack on one side, and another male jack on the other. It works very, very well with my RJ-11 (AT&T style residential) phone jacks. Along with the RJ-11, it makes the audible click that a good phone jack mating should make.

What can you do with this? You can take an older phone that has a hardwired, not modular, line-in to the base, put the other (male) end into this Coupler, and then to the other side of the Coupler add an inexpensive roll of phone extension cord, which are usually male/male. If you have a modular wall jack, you're home free! And the whole shebang costs very little money: male/male line cord is quite inexpensive, even rolls of 25 feet or more. You've probably figured by now that even if you have a fully modular phone, you can extend the line with the same technique, with the coupler in the middle. This is especially useful to me because I have a turquoise-colored repro. Princess phone(q.v.) and the modular line out is a short and discreet thin black -- a much better color than some shade of white or off-white which are usually the only feasible modular replacements. The item at hand and its uncompromising Polar Whiteness doesn't matter because this it and the aforementioned roll of extension can be any color; your guests will not see the 'business' going on at or below the junction. Also, this item is so cheap it might make sense just to order it now and let future possibilities occasioned by an effective super-long cord arise. (See also "duplex" jacks to add a whole extra phone to the line.)

Impertinent question: Should a female modular receptacle be called a "jill" rather than a "jack"? lol

Not just for extending like making a 50 ft. out of two 25 ft.

A regular long phone cord brings a phone *plug from the wall to you. This on that same chord brings a phone *jack from the wall to you.


For instance buy short 3 foot cords and leave them permanently on the phone and other devices. Now just unplug and plug each device in and out this thing. Which is way faster if it is difficult to unplug wires from the phone itself (because the wire is held onto the phone with locking tabs on the bottom of the phone which takes a long time to unhook).

There is really not much I can say about a telephone line coupler except that it works or does not work as intended. This one works and serves the purpose for which I bought it.

I used this device to allow my Magic Jack Plus to connect to two phone lines at once. I have a short phone cord from my MG+ to this coupler, then a phone spliter in the other end of the device. It works perfectly!

I moved my fax machine further from the outlet and also had an extra telephone cable so this worked like a charm. Use one cable, attach this coupler in between the other- it's that simple. We all have extra telephone cables not quite long enough so use this and it'll put a smile on your budget!