Landlines to be axed by 2025
Landline are to be axed by 2025, in a country wide switch to digital.
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(This is in all the papers, I just happened to pick the above). |
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Will my VM bill reduce accordingly? :D
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Probably not.
Its kinda confusing though, since you will still need the actual physical line to your house, to supply the internet, its just the device on the end of it that will change. Im not sure how telephone exchanges will cope with this, basically every phone line would need to be an ADSL connection ? Digital calls themselves are nothing new, Ive had a skype number for almost 14 years, and still use it (sometimes) to make calls, as well as receive them. It *should* mean calls to any other uk number would be free, since everything will be over the internet. |
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IIRC BT has been preparing to switch its entire network to VOIP for years now. In previously reading about this I got the impression that there would be no change necessary to customer equipment as it was all about how the call data was handled once it got to the telephone exchange. If they are going to force voip equipment into subscriber homes I would imagine they would be installing something near the master socket that’s not unlike the fixed Openreach wall box you get if you take a FTTC product.
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https://www.bt.com/help/landline/wha...-can-i-get-it- But with additional kit to use existing handsets https://www.bt.com/content/dam/bt/he...-userguide.pdf Virgin Media are doing a similar thing. Telco only (or Telco and TiVo only) customers still get a Hub, just one that isn't provisioned for Virgin Fibre. The difference currently is that the Hub sockets will run existing handsets directly. |
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My Sky router uses the fttp for the telco now. No phone socket in the house.
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A lot of people use their mobiles or apps such as WhatsApp, which is probably why line rental has become more expensive (and line rental saver scrapped) with free calls offered in the evenings and weekends. It will be the less tech savvy that will lose out, often older people, as usual. |
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I’m seriously considering binning my entire BT service when it goes out of contract. Everything our family does now is via 4G, whether calls on our own mobiles or data via our SIM-powered router, which gives us about twice the speed of the nearest house so far connected to fibre (the line ends about 2 miles from us).
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So in an emergency and your interweb is down and/or your mobile has no reception/battery, you're stuffed. A separate independent landline might be a lifesaver.
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Here's the BBC article on the story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58233420 |
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Our BT service relies on nearly 5 miles of pole-mounted cable, so in the sort of storm liable to take out the power, the landline is equally vulnerable. |
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My dad isn't gonna be impressed as he cant use a mobile properly lol
When he sends a text we need to get it deciphered lol. |
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My brother-in-law lives in rural Hampshire, and his BT line goes down about 5% of the year - overhead cables, strong winds, trees - join the dots. |
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