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I don't think the Openreach ONT is going away for BT FTTP customers any time soon, so for now you are free to just plug whatever router you want into your ONT.

• gandalfian 3y ago
  Unless you eccentrically expect to use your telephone line to make telephone calls. In which case you are rather tied to their router to power their propietary VoIP landline service.
  • wolrah 3y ago
    > Unless you eccentrically expect to use your telephone line to make telephone calls. In which case you are rather tied to their router to power their propietary VoIP landline service. If you're the kind of person who cares about your router, why would you care about their proprietary VoIP service? Just use any other VoIP provider of your choice.
  • garblegarble 3y ago
    Is that different from the landline service they offer directly from the ONT? My Openreach ONT has a telephone jack as well as the RJ45. I've never actually used the telephone jack, but I'd imagine I would get a voip-backed fake dial tone if I did?
    • ta1243 3y ago
      I used to have BT Broadband FTTP in a previous house, which had a bidirectional fibre into a box of some sort, which was battery powered, and went into another box which emerged as a telephone jack, and an RJ45. This was 2016. The battery box was there to provide power and service for a landline in a power cut. My router plugged into that RJ45 with a pppoe client, username "bthomehub@btbroadband.com" and looks like any old password ("BTSux" for example)
  • Daviey 3y ago
    Emotive language such as "eccentrically" is strange considering the decline in landline subscribers, and even less usage of an actual landline. If you want to have a functioning "landline", why would you choose to use one bundled with your internet provider compared to a much more competitive independent voip provider? This is a good summary of the decline: https://www.wrappz.com/blog/decline-of-the-landline/ https://www.wrappz.com/blog/decline-of-the-landline/
    • snuxoll 3y ago
      > If you want to have a functioning "landline", why would you choose to use one bundled with your internet provider compared to a much more competitive independent voip provider? So much this. Even the local Cable co. charges more for residential home phone than competitors like Ooma do, and of course if I wanted to go the whole way with deploying small SIP PBX in my house I could do it for less than a couple bucks a month getting a DID from Flowroute. I guess getting it bundled by your triple-play provider of choice means you don't have to worry separately about battery backup because regulations usually require they provide that with their CPE; but it's not a big deal to hook your equipment up to a UPS either.
    • gandalfian 3y ago
      Yes Daviey, those of use using a telephone in the traditional way are a diminishing number. Hence passively becoming eccentric... Not as much as the person riding a penny farthing but slowly heading that way. To the other questions in the UK yes you can move your landline telephone number to a third party open standard sipp voip service, but setting up a voip adapter to pretend to be a landline is fiddly for many and migrating a landline telephone number, while it can be done, is not a nice process in practice. If you have an openreach ont with a telephone socket built in don't expect it to do anything in the future. The industry went another way. If you wish to carry on plugging in a telephone to your landline without any configuration then you will have to start using the telephone socket on your wifi router and only the router provided by your isp. (With some exceptions). Though most people won't care because they just use their mobiles now...
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  • ta1243 3y ago
    For FTTP (or indeed FTTC) my ISP will sell a voip bundle for £3 a month or something on top. You just plug in a phone, maybe stick it on it's own VLAN if you want. There's plenty of other voip providers too.