BT landline switchover

chrisredwards

I had a dreadful rural broadband via miles of copper and switched to Starlink whilst keeping landline. Has anybody any experience of keeping a landline number with digital broadband signal NOT provided by BT through EE? 

giraffe69

A mobile might work ok (it does for us with no signal) provided you have wifi calling.

iniltous

It would be interesting to see how someone in this position, wanting landline type telephony without landline broadband will be provided in the situation of WLR withdrawal…..basically it should be impossible to order a regular OSTN/WLR standalone phone service given that those products are no longer for sale …..

if you currently have landline broadband and want to not have to pay for it anymore, but you do want to maintain an IP telephony service, there are a couple of solutions that ‘BT’ have , but there is no evidence of which one is used , and AFAIK no confirmation from a customer that is currently using it…..(obviously this is not legacy PSTN only customers, but customers that have ordered standalone telephony since the WLR withdrawal which was September 2023 )

BT  could basically stop charging for broadband, reduce the bandwidth to 0.5Mb on the existing broadband and the customer continues to use a broadband router with a phone connected , the broadband effectively unusable but is still  there , (0.5Mb fine for telephony but useless for anything else) or the customer is connected to an ATA in the exchange so basically the broadband equipment exists remotely from the customer address , the customer connects to the phone socket so doesn’t need a broadband router , that’s located in the exchange building.