On Monday, 12 October 2020 11:14:20 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Considering getting full fibre instead of FTC as I have at the moment.
Does the existing phone line stay, or does the new fibre cable include
provision for a basic analogue phone?

When we had FTTP installed, I plugged the phone into the socket on the optical box - and it was dead.

BT installer chap called base, and chatted around. Seems they sometimes move it over to digital, sometimes not. And not at all clear the basis of that decision.

Ended up, phone is still on copper.(We never use it, so no real difference for us.)

However there is an advantage, being on copper, it would still work during a power cut. On FTTP, it wouldn't unless you supply some sort of backup power yourself to the boxes.