Forced Migration To FTTP

Ectophile

If you want FTTP and a phone line, check carefully what the providers are offering.  I switched to Vodafone because their router offers VOIP as standard.  So you can plug an ordinary phone in.  They even ported across my old phone number.

For anyone who is switching to Vodafone FTTP, you will find that the socket on the back of the router doesn't take a standard BT plug.  And there wasn't a phone adaptor in the box, as shown in the instruction manual.

But there was a DSL lead, which I had ignored.  So I called support.  It turns out that most phones have a socket on the back that the BT lead plugs into.  If you unplug the BT lead, it will most likely be just the right socket for the DSL lead supplied with the router.  Plug the DSL lead from the phone to one of the green sockets on the router and you're done.

Timalay

brewerdave said:

When I was looking to renew my FTTC contract earlier this year with Plusnet (on a fibre priority exchange) my only choice was to stay on 40/10 FTTC with PN or "upgrade" to FTTP. None of the other usual ISPs would offer FTTC .
 I hesitated because I was going to keep my phoneline but decided to make the leap and do without a landline phone number. - stayed with PN at a price that was better than they were prepared to offer for a continuation of FTTC product. Has proved to be much more stable connection and not missing the home number (and all the spam calls!)

If you wanted to keep the phone, Plusnet would have let you switch to EE with no early termination contract fees.  They did with me.

Vitor

People can maybe opt for what Openreach call SOTAP (Single Order Transitional Access Product) where the phone is moved to Digital Voice but the physical carrier remains copper pair. That will mean Internet speed  typically tops out at 24Mbps due to the limits of copper pair..

If you OK getting fibre to the premises, 900Mbps is the top offering from Openreach/BT

iniltous

Vitor said:

People can maybe opt for what Openreach call SOTAP (Single Order Transitional Access Product) where the phone is moved to Digital Voice but the physical carrier remains copper pair. That will mean Internet speed  typically tops out at 24Mbps due to the limits of copper pair..

If you OK getting fibre to the premises, 900Mbps is the top offering from Openreach/BT

Not it’s not EE and others already offer offer 1.6Gb 

QrizB

Vitor said:

People can maybe opt for what Openreach call SOTAP (Single Order Transitional Access Product) where the phone is moved to Digital Voice but the physical carrier remains copper pair. That will mean Internet speed  typically tops out at 24Mbps due to the limits of copper pair..

SOTAP is the all-digital, no-analogue-voice replacement for ADSL.

SOGEA is the equivalent but for FTTC.

My Vodafone service is delivered over copper via SOGEA and I'm getting about 70MBps.

https://www.networkcollective.co.uk/insight/insight-article-sogea-sotap-so-what/

Vitor

- Not it’s not EE and others already offer offer 1.6Gb  - 

EE’s 1.6 Gb uses a different fibre platform, I was clearly referring to Openreach’s FTTP top offering. Context matters

iniltous

Really , who do you think delivers EE fibre offering , hint , EE are not available on any other network other than Openreach .
If you were clearly referring to Openreach , you were clearly wrong , odd they can cut prices on something you recon they don’t supply.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/10/openreach-cuts-uk-price-of-1-2gbps-and-1-8gbps-fttp-broadband-tiers.html

brewerdave

Timalay said:

brewerdave said:

When I was looking to renew my FTTC contract earlier this year with Plusnet (on a fibre priority exchange) my only choice was to stay on 40/10 FTTC with PN or "upgrade" to FTTP. None of the other usual ISPs would offer FTTC .
 I hesitated because I was going to keep my phoneline but decided to make the leap and do without a landline phone number. - stayed with PN at a price that was better than they were prepared to offer for a continuation of FTTC product. Has proved to be much more stable connection and not missing the home number (and all the spam calls!)

If you wanted to keep the phone, Plusnet would have let you switch to EE with no early termination contract fees.  They did with me.

Yes, I knew that but EE would have been over £30pm plus calls. I managed to get basic FTTP for £25.99 from PN and now using mobile calls over wifi on both our phones.