Abstract: A telephone connecting socket to be fixed in a wall for a connecting plug of a telephone to fit in a hole in the socket having a front cap, a body and a rear cap, the front cap covering a front portion of the body and the rear cap covering a rear half portion of the body, the front cap having an opening normally closed up with a shield elastically pushed by a coil spring, the body having an inner socket with a hole for the connecting plug of a telephone to fit therein by passing through the opening in the front cap with the shield pushed open.