I need to run a telephone extension, am I correct in assuming I can use CAT 6 cable for this?
I need to run a telephone extension, am I correct in assuming I can use CAT 6 cable for this?
in another couple of years there won’t be a copper phone network to connect them to
So what will be there instead?
Voice Over Internet (VOIP).
And how does the 'Net get into the house?
The copper telephone network is scheduled to be turned off by December 2025, just over three years from now.
www.openreach.com/.../retiring-the-copper-network
Therefore the phone line I am intending install tomorrow will need to be reinstalled within three years , so I might as well use a cable that can be reused.
Even Hull is getting Fibre Broadband
Therefore the phone line I am intending install tomorrow will need to be reinstalled within three years , so I might as well use a cable that can be reused.
Why not go the whole hog, and fit a Cat6 RJ45 outlet instead of a phone socket, so the phone can be connected with an adaptor like this: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/GPBT4504.html?source=adwords&ad_position=&ad_id=&placement=&kw=&network=x&matchtype=&ad_type=pla&product_id=GPBT4504&product_partition_id=&campaign=shopping&version=finalurl_v3&gclid=Cj0KCQiA1NebBhDDARIsAANiDD3HbTaQDjN5k8bDGq4QlG_xJFaePondyZEQ3GQHnD8RTBA3440ZuGcaAsGnEALw_wcB
... and so it can be more easily repurposed in a couple of years' time
Why not go the whole hog, and fit a Cat6 RJ45 outlet instead of a phone socket, so the phone can be connected with an adaptor like this
If connected downstream of the linebox/master socket you're probably better off with the (cheaper) vanilla 'extension' version - https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/GPBT4503.html - the 'master' (and PBX master) versions re-generate the bell signal and can result in 'bell tinkle' when dialling especially if someone still has an old rotary dial phone or push-button phone set to LD dialling. UK phone deliberately short out the bell wire during LD dialling to prevent this - and master adaptors defeat that.
- Andy.
The old telephone network still works when there is no mains power, and I am not sure this IP everything is a good idea. During a power cut to an largish area, there will be NO telephone communication as most of the infrastructure is not battery backed up if everything is electronic. Accident or fire will happen but no communications from the public? Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Now does everyone see why "proper" electricity supplies are vital?
No 'even' about Hull - it has always been quite progressive, and was a keen independent actor, being as far as I know the only City in the UK to be connected to but not part of the GPO network from the early days, then later as Kingston Telecom, not part of BT.
Apart from having different coloured phone boxes, they were very early adopters of the dial telephones - no more 'number please' in Hull at a time when when the rest of the UK was still on switchboards. Not too surprised to see full fibre, even if the city is no longer riding the wave of fish money.
But in any case the plan has all the copper de-enegised in a couple of years. Not sure how that works for places with a phone but no mains power.
When fibre to the home was first mooted, the idea was there would be an internal battery able to make emergency calls for a few hours, but this has fallen by the wayside as the full bandwidth internet solution is just too current hungry.
And of course the mobile base stations have the same problem, and generally fall over ni a power cut, it not immediately then after an hour or so - legally they do hot have to be backed up.
Also I suspect that there will be a lot more moaning in future when builders cut the fibre than there is now when they slice a bit of twisted copper, as the effort to do a splice in the field is rather more involved.
Mike.
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