a housing, said housing sized and configured to fit over the modular telecommunications connector having a broken-off depressible tab, said housing having a top surface, a front edge, a back edge and two side walls extending downward from said top surface, said side walls being cut away in a stepped fashion toward the front edge of said housing thereby forming a top-wall tongue, said tongue sized and configured to fit into a female telecommunications port, and;

a replacement depressible tab flexibly attached to the top surface of said housing and extending angularly upward toward the back edge of said housing.