What good would it do you to have it with no one to call? Unless it can somehow connect to the phone network here, I suppose, but even then...it's not as though much of significance ever gets talked about, so you don't miss much by not listening in all the time. [This is easy for the telepath to say, of course.]

He claims he was just doing it as a test, but I think he was afraid to risk the price of anything bigger.