My phone (land line) had lots of static. I bought new phones, one corded and one cordless. Still static. Why?

You have a noisy line, duh. Call Repair Service and report it; they will fix it for you. No charge if the problems is outside your house, which is usually the case. Water gets in where it shouldn't and corrosion makes a high resistance, and voila! noise.

Before you call the phone company check your service with a non cordless phone at the network interface box at the side/rear of your house first. This could save you a trouble isolation charge if you do not have a maintenance plan.

Try this link for BT's website. It's for line fault problems. As far as I know you can report a fault online and then track it through so you know whats going on with it. It does sound like you hav a faulty line as opposed to faulty phones. The link is for you to troubleshoot first to try different solutions and basic things to see where the fault lies then there is the option to report it online or call BT

http://bt.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/bt.cfg/php/enduser/...