Home phone - but Plusnet pulling the plug

iniltous

If you took EE (for example) your existing regular home phone connects to the router , you get dialtone and make calls in exactly the same way as you do now , so I’m not sure why you mention the familiarity you have with DECT handsets , you still use them .

As far as being provided with a battery back up , honestly ( dont answer this question here , just answer it to yourself where there is absolutely no point in exaggerating to make a point ) how many power outages of any significant length have you had in the last 7 months , and assuming you did , was it necessary to make a 999 call ?, if the last 7 months had no outages , why should the next 7 months be any different ?

As far Plusnet suggesting you would be OK till November, that’s only 8 weeks before the absolute PSTN cut off ( and the implication you wouldn’t have renewed if you knew that it would be changed to IP months earlier) , had you decided to not renew, where would you have gone ?, no one would have sold you a PSTN phone service , you would have had to take IP telephony at that point , so you have had many months of your ‘saftey blanket’ that no other provider would have supplied .

I hope this doesn’t seem harsh or uncaring, it’s not meant to be , just a reality check , but if anyone with serious health concerns that constantly needs immediate attention from the emergency services , and live in a remote area ( the only area’s realistically that are prone to power outages and have no mobile coverage) then presumably they have more serious concerns like how long an ambulance would take to arrive, and how long the journey to the hospital will be , as well as the more mundane but consequential problems of a long lasting power outage (so without a medical emergency taking place ) , like the food in your freezer spoiling , no heating or lighting, no TV or other entertainment , at least your broadband and access to 999 calls will be available until the battery back up gives up …all these other things are off immediately .

Lastly , the last time your regular landline had a fault that put you in the position of no way to contact the emergency services , did you move out of your home for the duration of the fault , only returning once advised that the fault was cleared , if you didn’t (and again don’t answer here , be honest with yourself) then if you assessed the risk and found staying at home acceptable , then this is really no different.

Spikeygran

Still on adsl at present.