The plan though is to sell off the exchanges and remove the cabling for
recycling. The fact is that the router will still need power as will the
street infrastructure, be it coaxial cable or fibre.

Virgin have decided not to fix new wiring into faulty phone installations,
where possible just move the subscriber to a new unused circuit. I imagine
they will be going down the same route. One problem I have had with land
lines using voip is that a tone dialling memory device held against the
microphone is nowhere near as reliable as on a directly connected phone.
Brian

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On Thursday, 21 November 2019 10:28:36 UTC, NY wrote:
"Graeme" wrote in message
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Keep seeing stories regarding BT's planned switch off of analogue phone
lines in 2025 but, knowing little about telephony, and having no
particular interest in the subject, don't know what this really means
for
the average home phone user.

Thoughts?

Everyone will need to buy either new phones or else a converter
(essentially
analogue/digital interface) to allow existing analogue phone to work.

Either way, power will be needed for these phones or converters, which
means
that a landline phone cannot be relied on during power cuts. When we were
having up-down-up-down power cuts the other night, I was able to use an
"old
fashioned" corded phone to phone the power distribution people.

The converter or new phone could include a rechargeable battery, perhaps of
the same size as common non-rechargeables, acting as part of a mini-UPS. As
an option, the phone could then optionally ring you, there or elsewhere, to
tell you that the power had gone off/on ...

However, a switch-off of the analogue phone signal does not _require_ a
switch-off of the DC power which is applied to the distant end of your
telephone feed.

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