Is CAT 6 cable okay as a telephone line?

It don`t seem two minutes ago we were barred from doing any work that involved BT phone lines or part thereof. I remember I was fitting one of the old autodiallers for a burglar alarm system and a BT engineer turned up to work on the phone line. Phones were connected to the line by a junction box back then and he was fitting a "new fangled" master socket to allow phones to be "plugged in" . WOW. 

I thought I`d advise him that leaving the junction box thereabouts make make life easier because within a few days I would be connecting said dialler. Well he right uppity about that "YOU WILL NOT TOUCH THIS WIRING OR ADD ANYTHING ON THIS LINE ONLY US CAN DO THAT< OTHERWISE IT IS ILEGAL!" he quoted sternly.

I explained the dialler was type approved and I had sent the card in requesting permission to connect and requesting the appropriate JB but he were having none of it.

A few days later I was on site again waiting to connect the dialler as arranged and guess who turned up to do the BT bit? Yes , same chap, strange he never mentioned our previous conversation Ha Ha Ha. Priceless.

A few years later I arranged for a new telephone line in a small factory for a communicator. Engineer turned up on site insisting it could only be within a few yards of the existing "Or they will charge you for it". I said "Yes it has been paid for and they have agreed to put it here!" He were not at all pleased it was a fair long run. As he was packing up he left a brand new phone handset. 

I informed him the handset was not required just the line for our equipment "YOU MUST HAVE A PHONE ON RENTAL WITH A NEW LINE!" so I rang Telecom Sales " Is it a requirement to have the phone too?" . NO. I handed him the phone and said "Telecom Sales would like to speak to you!" . After talking to them and protesting what was always rules he left with that phone. 

How times have changed

It don`t seem two minutes ago we were barred from doing any work that involved BT phone lines or part thereof. I remember I was fitting one of the old autodiallers for a burglar alarm system and a BT engineer turned up to work on the phone line. Phones were connected to the line by a junction box back then and he was fitting a "new fangled" master socket to allow phones to be "plugged in" . WOW. 

I thought I`d advise him that leaving the junction box thereabouts make make life easier because within a few days I would be connecting said dialler. Well he right uppity about that "YOU WILL NOT TOUCH THIS WIRING OR ADD ANYTHING ON THIS LINE ONLY US CAN DO THAT< OTHERWISE IT IS ILEGAL!" he quoted sternly.

I explained the dialler was type approved and I had sent the card in requesting permission to connect and requesting the appropriate JB but he were having none of it.

A few days later I was on site again waiting to connect the dialler as arranged and guess who turned up to do the BT bit? Yes , same chap, strange he never mentioned our previous conversation Ha Ha Ha. Priceless.

A few years later I arranged for a new telephone line in a small factory for a communicator. Engineer turned up on site insisting it could only be within a few yards of the existing "Or they will charge you for it". I said "Yes it has been paid for and they have agreed to put it here!" He were not at all pleased it was a fair long run. As he was packing up he left a brand new phone handset. 

I informed him the handset was not required just the line for our equipment "YOU MUST HAVE A PHONE ON RENTAL WITH A NEW LINE!" so I rang Telecom Sales " Is it a requirement to have the phone too?" . NO. I handed him the phone and said "Telecom Sales would like to speak to you!" . After talking to them and protesting what was always rules he left with that phone. 

How times have changed