VOIP telephone

I can’t seem to get an answer I understand from my ISP regarding VOIP. They keep trying to get me to sign and transfer my phone over.

I understand that BT are going to stop using copper lines in 2025 so we are being told we have to transfer our land line phones to our router. Unfortunately our broadband connection relies on the overhead copper cables. We have been told that we will not get upgraded to a fibre line until the end of 2026, at the earliest; what happens to our line after 2025?.  We are about 1 mile from the cabinet in the village which is the nearest fibre connection, there is then an old copper line overhead to us and beyond. Our broadband speed is not great; typically about 9-11Gbs but often only 2 or3 and problems with contention.

Can anyone explain?

Your copper line will still supply your internet once bt stop using it for phone calls. If you still want a landline (I’m frankly astonished that people still do) then you will need a VOIP phone.

I would like to keep the landline option as we don’t get a good mobile signal all the time. Rural Aberdeenshire.

Well get a VOIP phone when the time comes then.

(or just use wifi calling on your mobile which is what I do)

WiFi calling is your best option I think. We get no mobile signal so use wifi calling with a Jackery power station thing to back up the router when the power goes off.

A lot of people are not going to be prepared for this. Landlines do a great job of sitting there silently ready to be used to hear about and report emergencies

I would like to keep the landline option as we don’t get a good mobile signal all the time. Rural Aberdeenshire.

I am assuming you have checked *all* the networks?

I have a colleague who swears by getting a Vodafone signal booster – went from no signal inside old thick-walled rural home (but one at the end of the garden) to great calls and steady 4g when needed.
Starlink?

Most phones do VoIP only really old stuff won’t cope. If it’s made from  poly­oxy­benzyl­methylene­glycol­anhydride you might struggle

Whaaaat ? You telling me my trusty bakalite telephonic communicator from 1956 didnt come  VOIP-ready ? 😖

In summary

– Copper cables will continue to link you to the exchange / cabinet in the street.

– BT will turn off the analog equipment at the end of 2025.

– You can still have a landline phone (i.e. one plugged into the wall), at worst you will need to plug a filter between it and the router. Using it will be the same as now.

– You will keep your number.

– You will no longer have a phone powered by the phone cable (which is rare these days with most of us using wireless phones as the base station plugs into the mains).

– Don’t stress about it.

What happens to people who don’t have the intraweb?

What happens to people who don’t have the intraweb?

Their pigeons will still work fine.

What happens to people who don’t have the intraweb?

That’s kinda of the point everyone will have internet access, that’s what having a landline will be in the future.

I keep a landline as it’s still cheaper for people to call me from abroad. The call quality with VOIP is infinitely better.