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Old 6th Dec 2021, 12:20 pm   #17
Eidolon
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Default Re: Old phones and the new BT INternet-only phonelines

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Originally Posted by cmjones01 View Post
This change has already happened to us here in Poland, where landline phone services are provided by Orange. They told us that at the end of October the copper service was being discontinued, and we arranged to have fibre installed. The fibre goes in to the back of the Orange router, and our "landline" phone is connected to that router. It also provides Ethernet connections for internet and to the "cable TV" box that they also provide. The whole shebang - landline phone, internet and TV - comes down the fibre.

In the case of a power cut we'd have no phone other than mobiles.

Chris
So do the routers come with extra sockets now to facilitae the phone lines too? Getting the cables from my phones to the router will be a nightmare, without any doubt
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