Does anyone know anything about digital phone networks? We live in a new house which is fibre

Fidden

If you only noticed after a month, I'd definitely ditch the phones and get those who use it to call one of the mobiles instead, saving you money each month

Neil49

Fidden said:

When you say the phones work digitally from the router, is that wireless or do they have base stations that are plugged into the router?

It is possible, but without knowing more details hard to be sure, that the phones you had before are locked somehow to the old service, possibly because you were paying for that service and are not now.

One radical idea, drop the phones entirely and use your mobiles on WiFi calling.  Will save you money and lets you use your mobile phones to make/receive calls at no additional cost over your mobile contract (assuming these are unlimited calls, as most mobile packages are now).

The suggestion of using WiFi calling is OK to a point but you need a mobile phone that supports WiFi calling and a mobile provider that supports it on your specific phone. 

The network providers usually publish a list of supported phones but they are not always up to date and some, such as Vodafone, indicate that they limit the service to phones sold by them. I've found Three and ID mobile pretty good for WiFi calling setup but when I switched to O2 I had to get them to setup my account to make it work. 

ciderboy2009

OP - the BT Digital Voice phones are actually DECT phones.  The important thing is that the BT router has the DECT base station built in to it.  I'm assuming that the Vodafone one doesn't.

If you buy a cheap DECT base station and phone which will plug into the Vodafone router then you will be able to connect your DV phones to this and still use them - it's what I did (although the BT DV phones are still a load of rubbish!)

Fidden

Neil49 said:

Fidden said:

When you say the phones work digitally from the router, is that wireless or do they have base stations that are plugged into the router?

It is possible, but without knowing more details hard to be sure, that the phones you had before are locked somehow to the old service, possibly because you were paying for that service and are not now.

One radical idea, drop the phones entirely and use your mobiles on WiFi calling.  Will save you money and lets you use your mobile phones to make/receive calls at no additional cost over your mobile contract (assuming these are unlimited calls, as most mobile packages are now).

The suggestion of using WiFi calling is OK to a point but you need a mobile phone that supports WiFi calling and a mobile provider that supports it on your specific phone. 

The network providers usually publish a list of supported phones but they are not always up to date and some, such as Vodafone, indicate that they limit the service to phones sold by them. I've found Three and ID mobile pretty good for WiFi calling setup but when I switched to O2 I had to get them to setup my account to make it work. 

Or you get an unlocked phone with the capability, which will then work on any network (as confirmed with my wife's last phone).

[Deleted User]

I have a Fritz.box which has both DECT and VOIP (what BT chooses to call Digital Voice).  Gigaset offers DECT phones with a VOIP gateway which simply plugs into any router LAN socket. Most modern DECT phones will connect to a Gigaset hub. I also use Fritz.Fon - an App that diverts all my VOIP calls to my mobile phone.

The system works brilliantly until you have a power outage as we had last Saturday afternoon.

Kat7774

I don't use a home phone, I'm with vodafone but can't get broadband set up now its moved to digital. What connections shouldI have in/out of router? 

Neil49

Kat7774 said:

I don't use a home phone, I'm with vodafone but can't get broadband set up now its moved to digital. What connections shouldI have in/out of router? 

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