VOIP Back up.

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It seems most Broadband providers are turning to full fibre, at least if you want a decent deal.
This involves removing copper cable so fixed landlines no longer work in event of powercut.
I did look at Vodafone, they said nothing available as back up. Talktalk initially said they could supply a 'back up box'.
This would provide power for upto 60 minutes, but when I called back to sign up they had no idea what I was talking about. Nor did the supervisor ?
An internet search gives varying answers, from not available at all, available for 999 or 112 calls only and available for all calls for a limited time ?
My Wife is a Nurse and needs to be contactable. Having a back up would enable her to notify 'base' that she was offline.
They may be able to use mobile afterwards but initial contact has to be by landline, I do not know why.
So long explanation, but is such a device available or not ?
This involves removing copper cable so fixed landlines no longer work in event of powercut.
I did look at Vodafone, they said nothing available as back up. Talktalk initially said they could supply a 'back up box'.
This would provide power for upto 60 minutes, but when I called back to sign up they had no idea what I was talking about. Nor did the supervisor ?
An internet search gives varying answers, from not available at all, available for 999 or 112 calls only and available for all calls for a limited time ?
My Wife is a Nurse and needs to be contactable. Having a back up would enable her to notify 'base' that she was offline.
They may be able to use mobile afterwards but initial contact has to be by landline, I do not know why.
So long explanation, but is such a device available or not ?
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You could use a Router UPS, Something like this: https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/44819-eaton-3sm36b/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwnP-ZBhDiARIsAH3FSRf3i2DyaWmzyPj-41VCZgNf5zaOUsghfO2zrDMKVS9JgqPZaqEdthgaAqIMEALw_wcB
But if your power is out the local exchange power might also suffer in an outage, so your internet connection may not be usable anyway.
Surely her contact number should be her mobile.
Or maybe her employer ?
Bizarrely, when her boss contacts her, at all times, on or off duty, it always by mobile, but when on call it has to be landline ?
Personally, if you need to retain a landline type service, I would consider de-coupling it from your ISP, so that you just buy internet from whoever and your voice runs independently over the top.
In reality she rarely gets calls direct, so it probably a 'just in case' thing ?
I not sure having a separate landline would help as the b-band provider disconnects the copper line.
I wonder if we change and then just say to her employer that this is the situation and see what they come up with.
Less necessary these days but it used to be a massive money saver when one of us was overseas as we could call each other for free. Still relevant now, any calls to anyone else are charged at standard VOIP rates rather than overseas rates
Now VOIP is more common, the charges are the same as standard landline. Is this money for almost nothing ?
UK to UK calls may not be materially different in pricing but voip to voip anywhere in the world tends to be free and international calls are massively cheaper. BT charge £1.38/min to call home (or £0.68 on international friends & family) but our VOIP is 7.5p
As mentioned above whilst you are not in the UK you still get UK calling rates and so whereas mobile would jump to over £3/min our voip remains at 7.5p