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Is CAT 6 cable okay as a telephone line?

I need to run a telephone extension, am I correct in assuming I can use CAT 6 cable for this?

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  • I said above the last time I installed a dedicated phone line was around seven years ago, it was actually 2016 just after Sky Q was introduced.

    Some builders I was working for managed, without much effort, to destroy the existing phone line to the customers study, so I replaced it and thinking about it I did use Cat 6, but after I finished a BT guy came and rejigged the phone line to try and bump up the internet speed for the customers new Sky Q set up from around 3 Mbps and had a fiddle with what I had done along with the alarm phone line.

    A lot of the customers don’t have a landline phone anymore and I certainly thought running phone lines was a thing the past.

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  • I said above the last time I installed a dedicated phone line was around seven years ago, it was actually 2016 just after Sky Q was introduced.

    Some builders I was working for managed, without much effort, to destroy the existing phone line to the customers study, so I replaced it and thinking about it I did use Cat 6, but after I finished a BT guy came and rejigged the phone line to try and bump up the internet speed for the customers new Sky Q set up from around 3 Mbps and had a fiddle with what I had done along with the alarm phone line.

    A lot of the customers don’t have a landline phone anymore and I certainly thought running phone lines was a thing the past.

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