topic Re: Need advice on landline in Home Phone

Need advice on landline

EDD1 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:13:37 GMT

I have a BT Socket but internet fibre with plusnet .I need to buy a BT phone can i plug into the socket. Without effecting the router.

Re: Need advice on landline

jab1 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:19:57 GMT

@EDD1 The simple answer is yes. Which Master socket do you have - one with a single socket , or one of the newer dual socket ones?

Re: Need advice on landline

EDD1 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:21:39 GMT

Dual socket

Re: Need advice on landline

jab1 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:24:07 GMT

In which case, just plug the phone into the 'phone' socket and you're good to go.

Re: Need advice on landline

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:04:45 GMT

@EDD1 wrote:

I need to buy a BT phone can i plug into the socket.

@EDD1

Before you buy a new BT phone, are you aware that the UK phone system is being switched off at the end of 2025 ?

BT Publish UK Regional Rollout Schedule for Digital Voice

Rather than spending money on a soon to become obsolete phone to plug into the BT socket (for maybe 18 months), you might want to consider future-proofing your purchase with the replacement technology - a "VoIP" telephone, which plugs into your broadband router, and your voice calls are made over the internet, but otherwise the handset works the same as now.

Re: Need advice on landline

HPsauce — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 11:28:30 GMT

@EDD1 you say you have "fibre". Presumably you mean FTTC, i.e. Fibre To The Cabinet, with a copper cable into your house.

As noted above there's a transition to Digital voice planned, do you even have a phone service on the line, it's possible you don't. PlusNet are phasing out phone services anyway.

Try ands borrow a phone from a friend/neighbour and plug it in. If you get a dial tone call 17070 which is a test number that will also conform the phone number assigned.