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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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  • The customers take on it is that they don’t actually use a landline phone anymore, they have unused phone extensions in the flat that are disconnected and a cordless phone that was turned off at the electric socket, they also always take their mobile phone when they go out so as well as using them at home, so will have them when they are in the lift.

    I do wonder if I have run a fifty metre long phone line which may not actually be used or particularly fit for purpose.

    It is probably also why it’s the first full landline phone extension I have installed in seven years, hence the moment when I had to stop and think about what I needed to do.

    I did actually try connecting directly to the BT socket, but it only has an internet connection.

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  • The customers take on it is that they don’t actually use a landline phone anymore, they have unused phone extensions in the flat that are disconnected and a cordless phone that was turned off at the electric socket, they also always take their mobile phone when they go out so as well as using them at home, so will have them when they are in the lift.

    I do wonder if I have run a fifty metre long phone line which may not actually be used or particularly fit for purpose.

    It is probably also why it’s the first full landline phone extension I have installed in seven years, hence the moment when I had to stop and think about what I needed to do.

    I did actually try connecting directly to the BT socket, but it only has an internet connection.

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