BT Full Fibre 100

Scotbot

I am thinking of upgrading to FF but I want to keep my landline with the same number. Can I do it? I know an ONT is installed but do they leave the old socket and copper wiring?

Secondly how long would I be without Internet connection? The BT site  says it takes half a day

The_Fat_Controller

Ask BT !

That way you'll get the facts and not a random opinion.

The_Fat_Controller

Read this, you lose the copper line however the Digital Voice service is an option.

https://kenstechtips.com/index.php/bt-full-fibre-broadband

JJ_Egan

I have old socket  and phone service .FTTP via optical cable to ONT box .

But yes its BT you need to ask or even your BT members community forum .

The_Fat_Controller

BT certainly did provide a hybrid service for a while as @JJ_Egan has, but I cannot find any reference to that still being the case.

With the copper landline services being phased out I cannot see why the would continue to do so now they have their Digital Voice service up and running.

matelodave

My "full fibre" connection was originally installed as a hybrid service - fibre for broadband and copper for the phone.

About five months ago BT shut off the copper service and transferred my phone to their Digital Voice service (VoIP). I still have the same phone number and my existing DECT and landline phones now plug directly into the router instead of the wall and work exactly the way they did before.

However, I've also got a BT DV handset which communicates with the router wirelessly and which gives me the capability of conducting two independent incoming or two out going phone calls or even one of each at the same time using the same phone number, not essential but has already proved useful on several occasions. The only minor disadvantage is that you lose phone and broadband if there's a power cut. A situation that can easily be resolved with a standby supply to back it up.

For some this might be an inconvenience but probably no more than all the lights going out and not having any heating or cooking etc.

It's going to happen over the next 3-5 years for everyone, so I guess we'll just have to get used to it

HaroldWren5

As far as I can tell, both BT, Sky and Vodafone provide Full Fibre via Openreach and you can keep your landline number with each. 

HaroldWren5

Scotbot said:

I am thinking of upgrading to FF but I want to keep my landline with the same number. Can I do it? I know an ONT is installed but do they leave the old socket and copper wiring?

Secondly how long would I be without Internet connection? The BT site  says it takes half a day

You can keep your landline number if you sign up with Vodafone, Sky, or BT when you get their Openreach based Full Fibre service. With Sky and BT, I believe the phone service is provided by "Digital Voice". Matelodave referred to it above, and it is mentioned now on the BT website Ultrafast Fibre page and on Sky's page under a different name as well.  

matelodave

When we got full fibre with BT some four years ago the phone remained on the copper pairs.

Around the middle of last year BT transferred the phone to Digital Voice and disabled the copper connection. We just unplugged the DECT phone base station from the wall and plugged it into the router - the answerphone and all the DECT phones worked exactly as before.

Several weeks ago we changed over from BT to Vodafone and the phone transferred as well. No hassles and at £30 a month less than BT. We've still got the same number and stuff like caller ID still works as it should.

AFAIK Vodafone now only offer a VoIP phone service