Cordless Phones

[Daij]

We are having Fibre installed next week. They have told us that the only landline phones that will work will be wireless phones.
Currently, we have Panasonic cordless phones. Are these the same as wireless phones or are we going to have to get new?

Thanks in advance

[bhg481]

I wonder if you have misunderstood them; we have fibre but when we upgraded from twisted pair they disconnected all the extension phone outlets ie, we only had one working phone outlet so, to get handsets in several rooms, we had to get a cordless system; a master phone plugged into the socket and other other handsets connected cordlessly to it.

[barry1010]

Your Panasonic phones will work

[sddsddean]

We had BT fibre installed a couple of months ago. Also told, old phones will not work, but we will give you 2 new ones. They gave us 2 'Essential' phones and these work fine, though your broadband hub needs to be on for them to work, so they will not work in a power cut. We tried plugging our Panasonic answer machine 'hub' (we have 4 cordless phones) into the green 'phone' socket on the back of the BT hub and they worked fine, apart from putting a 2 second burst of white noise on any message you leave on the Panasonic answer machine. So basically, try it out and see which you prefer.

[Daij]

Thanks very much

[gingejbee]

I've read that an adaptor is/will be available to enable your current phone to be connected to the system...and your present cordless phones will then work.

[mjwman]

Do you really NEED a landline? We ditched ours years ago and use our mobiles. never ever been a problem.

[CrapAtCryptics]

We`ve been on fibre pretty much since it became available in our area and had no problems with our existing phones.

[gingejbee]

^I'm wondering if people are confusing two things here...having fibre broadband installed but still having conventional copper-connected landlines...and the proposed phasing out of all conventional landlines, so that all calls will be made via fibre over the internet.

[Maydup]

I wonder if the phrase is Wi-Fi rather than wireless phones?

[barry1010]

Nothing to do with WiFi calling.
The confusion is between fibre broadband and VOIP which will need the adaptor to connect the landline phone to the router when the current landline system is switched off

[weecalf]

These could turn in to pay as you phone as mine have and cant receive calls what ever I’ve said to provider

[Hopkirk]

Yes, I think there is a misunderstanding. Only one phone can be plugged in, and in my experience it can be an old one. However if more are needed you need a cordless set with the base station being the one plugged in.