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Old 18-08-2021, 00:47   #5
BenMcr
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Re: Landlines to be axed by 2025

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
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.
By the looks of it everyone will get at least a Smart Hub 2 with a telco socket

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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