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Originally Posted by Taf
I had an email from VM to say that in 60 days my landline will no longer work, so they will send me an adapter to connect my home phone to the modem.
That will mean moving the DECT telephone base station to the bedroom where the modem is.
But they said that if I really need a landline, they can have one fitted, so that I can use the phone during powercuts.
No info on how to arrange that though.
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With BT that’s impossible because they are progressively removing the hardware that enables it. I assume that’s also the case with VM as and when they upgrade street cabinets with the latest kit.
Perhaps what they mean is that they will supply a UPS (battery backup) so your modem continues to function in a power cut. That’s the only way they can continue to offer a landline-like service if all the actual landlines (which carry a current independent of your home’s power supply) are decommissioned.
As a BT FTTH customer I can buy the UPS if I want it, but would be entitled to a free one if I fell into certain categories of vulnerable customer.
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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
This is the story of my life - I never seem to fit in. Through no fault of my own nothing is ever straightforward.
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A gentle observation if I may: Often I find people who can’t understand why they don’t fit in, are unaware how choices they themselves have made have contributed to the not-fitting-in.
To take a trivial example - you’re one of just two contributors on this forum who bothers to change the default text in your posts. You switch it to Arial, Seph switches the colour to blue. In both cases the pair of you actually make your contributions slightly more difficult for some other members to read, though in this case it’s hardly bad enough to be worth over-riding your choice.
As I said, that’s a trivial example and you’re probably wondering why it’s even a thing, or why the forum allows formatting if you’re not supposed to use it. Of course, you can do it if you want. But the point is, nobody else on the forum does (with the one exception I mentioned). Your posts stand out as different, and it was your deliberate choice that caused that, even if that wasn’t the intention behind your choice.
Obviously I don’t really know you, and you don’t know me. I can’t start telling you what specific things you should do or not do if you want to fit in. All I’d say is that your own choices define your fitting-in perhaps more than you realise and you’re not entirely powerless to change your circumstances if you want to.