Phone line with Fibre To The Premises.

I have used a virtual phone number for my business in the past with a local phone number diverted to any mobile or fixed line that I wanted,. It worked very well and was not expensive. I am considering options to get rid of my existing landline especially if i transfer to fibre and  came across a virtual landline service. You will have to do a search I am having difficulty pasting a link. They say you can transfer your existing phone number to their service. I am sure there will be more than one company providing a similar service.

let us know how you get on.

I am on a copper lines only service from Andrews & Arnold.  I transferred my BT number to them and they in turn put that same number on to the VoIP service. I pay A&A £10 per month inc VAT for the copper line plus £1.20p per month service charge for the VoIP + calls on top of my broadband.  Very happy with their service.

Have a look at https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/threads.php you will find sections for both VoIP and Andrews & Arnold and my posts on same.

Clive

It does make you wonder if the line voltage they use is higher than the normal ;-)

Mike

It’s a little worrying how simpletelecoms portrays their customers, she does not look like any of mine.

From that last website I linked to:

”Openreach is withdrawing ALL copper-based voice telephone lines from the UK’s network on December 31st 2025, as the network will reach its end of life.”

https://www.simpletelecoms.co.uk/cloud-Phone-Lines-for-Retired-People

As the copper phone network only has a working life of just over three years, I presume VoIP from Vonage or an alternative supplier is the only real way of mimicking the existing system and keeping a landline phone number.

According to that website I linked to new copper connections are only supposed to be available until this time next year.

We had a new drop wire earlier this year from the pole to the socket, because one of the conductors had snapped after fifty years or so of blowing in the wind.

I am pretty sure there is an agenda to discourage copper lines,  shut off the copper networks completely and remove all the kit from the exchanges. I would not be so concerned about that - glass fibre is capable of being technically superior, but there are choices that  have  made over  things like  the complete replacement of circuit switching - a point to point connection - with packet switching, which is more internet-like  and your message is not guaranteed to arrive in the same way, and a disregard for how to make it all work without mains that I think make it a backwards step.

Meanwhile, as I live in an area that will not get fibre for years, and is suffering from line-rot, I am trying to switch back from a combined broadband and voice line to  voice only, to find it is almost impossible not to get billed for a sub megabit broadband connection I can not use. ( the reasonable rate of internet now coming over the air from a nearby base-station is ~ 10s of mbits.)

Mike.

Simon Barker 

If you think the Vonage VoIP is expensive have a look at the “pensioners” copper landline deals.

www.simpletelecoms.co.uk/Telephone-line-for-Elderly-People

It seems there’s only now two copper phone line providers BT and these, any idea of competition and the free market keeping costs down for consumers have gone completely out of the window. Have a look at that website and you will see their take on how things will go with phone only deals.

I only really want to keep my landline number having had the current one for thirty one year's, though the number of customers who actually use it is diminishing rapidly.

Nothing will happen for a couple of months or more as the fibre hasn’t been installed yet and there will be a change over period when we have both copper and fibre connections with internet from two ISPs and the phone.

mapj1 

I think some Internet Service Providers supply a router with a phone socket and others have provision to use a DECT wireless phone linked to the router.

However at the moment we are lined up to be connected by Be Fibre who don’t appear to offer these options.

We have a copper connection only for internet broadband from talktalk with a gif-gaf on each of the mobiles.  Mobiles have free calls to other phones, rather than using the BT dial up phone handset which is unnecessarily expensive on local calls.