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MovedGoalPosts · 15-11-2012, 00:08

The physical phone socket you plug your home phone into, whether that is the master point, or an extension, is identical to all UK phone systems (unless you have a really ancient old post office wired phone, i.e no plug in connection).

The master point for VM or indeed any cable company, will be a different point to that used by BT. Consumers shouldn't interfere with the wiring onto the back of those points. However there is usually a consumer removable faceplate on those points that would enable consumers to connect their own extension wiring. On some BT systems the master point can include an ADSL filter and phone point splitter, rather than the separate filters often supplied by the various ADSL broadband suppliers.

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MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: Is the VM box the same as the BT box? The physical phone socket you plug your home phone into, whether that is the master point, or an extension, is identical to all UK phone systems (unless you have a really ancient old post office wired phone, i.e no plug in connection). The master point for VM or indeed any cable company, will be a different point to that used by BT. Consumers shouldn't interfere with the wiring onto the back of those points. However there is usually a consumer removable faceplate on those points that would enable consumers to connect their own extension wiring. On some BT systems the master point can include an ADSL filter and phone point splitter, rather than the separate filters often supplied by the various ADSL broadband suppliers.