Digital Voice - Telephone Switchover

Any idea if this will effect Virgin phone lines.
A cable from the router to two phones sounds like a nightmare of wiring going around door frames and under floorboards.
If it gets put in for free its bound to be the fastest most diabolically awful looking wiring.
I've seen it before, loads of wire and a staple gun.

 

Mine comes in as one cable from the street but it splits outside and comes in the house in two different places.
One line goes to the router and the other directly to the phone.

 

We have just had Full fibre installed and immediately lost the land line. At the moment we have no telephone communication available at all. Befibre do not provide a phone.

 

What are BT doing for the people in the middle of nowhere, will BT replace the old copper wire with fibre?
We have just got fibre outside the house after 6 years of a company trying to put it in they started at one end of the lane then went to the other end and left the bit in the middle then company went bust so it didn't get finnished, but last year new company done the middle bit and also had to replace some of the other fibre cable/ducting
The thing i would like to know is that our router is not close to the main/first socket will the new fible thingy replace the main socket then attach to the wiring in the house, our router is in the middle of the house attacted to the 3rd phone socket and it would be very hard to get fibre cable to where our router is, i don't want to start hit the house about just to get a cable to where it is now
If BT are not replacing the old copper with fibre then we will have to change to the only company that is doing fibre but i hate moving just because, or can we stay with BT and it comes through the fibre that another company as put in? abit like other phone companys use BT network

 

Oddest thing here was that BT said that they could not give us fibre to the house, but the cable comes from a BT pole in the raod.

 

The old virgin cables were a figure of 8, one part carrying the Broadband and TV signals, the other part just for the telephone, basically copper cables like the old BT system.

Seems Virgin are also planning to convert existing users with such cables /routers over to digital phones as detailed in this link.

Would assume they will just tell you when to plug your phone into the new router they send you.
Will they install it and any phone wiring for you for free ??
Reading their Q&A sections, they seem to say "check with your device provider" when referring to any of your handsets or similar, suggesting its not their problem ?

Think as long as you have a good mobile phone signal as an alternative emergency line don't think there is much to worry about, though we keep a second old mobile with a sim on a different network to cover all bases.
You can get sims that remain active on one top up for years as long as you make one call once in a while.

How to upgrade your virgin media home phone | Virgin Media Help

 

The more I hear about this the more I think its just a cobbled together total mess.

Virgin will supply me with an adapter to plug my phone into their hub, my phone is two rooms away from my hub?

I just think its another exercise in getting rid of a service none of them want to supply.

 

Just reading through the Virgin crap, I assume BT might be similar, but dont know.
Will my phone work when the broad band is down or during a power cut?
Answer, NO.
They can put in an emergency back up line at no extra cost for people who need it.

So why cant they do that for everybody who is paying for the service,

I think I will be playing into their hands and dumping the land line, it appears it will be a complete debacle.

The one reliable thing during a power cut was always the phone, it appears, due to "improvements" in technology that will soon be a thing of the past.
Lets face it mobiles are not immune from power cuts.

 

@pete, yes everyone is doing it because BT is closing down their analogue copper cable system.

Its called Progress, so they tell us !

You can of course still use other methods like smoke signals !

 

It seems you will only have to plug the adaptor into an electrical socket & then the phone into the hub. It seems it won't be necessary to plug it into your original modem - or I'm reading it wrong!