I am considering the pros and cons of disconnection of our home landline telephone (3 cordless phones). We stopped using our landline phones for outgoing calls several months ago as an experiment and just use our mobiles, keeping the landline phones for incoming calls only (not many incoming landline calls these days though). We have unlimited calls on our mobiles and this saved us continuing to pay the monthly call plan of £8 per month for the landline call package. Question: Have any of you had your landline phones disconnected and have you missed it? I know we have to adapt to change but being in our 70s and having had a landline and the same telephone number for the last 50 years feels a bit strange to give it up! Nothing stays the same and we have to adapt to change but not always that easy.
You are all probably aware that by the end of 2025 the traditional copper wire (ADSL) telephone lines will be switched off. Therefore we will all switch to Full Fibre by that date. We are currently with Plusnet (part of BT group) and have been for many years with no problems. Our current contract ends 31st March this year so I am looking at options taking into consideration the withdrawal of the copper wire landline at the end of 2025. Until recently I had Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) - the green metal cabinets you see on the street. These cabinets are gradually being withdrawn/decommissioned and that has happened in our street very recently. I now have Fibre to the public pavement and copper wire from the pavement to our home. The copper wire facilitates our landline telephone. Option 1: I can renew my existing deal with Plusnet, keep the copper wire and retain our landline phone and its number, but only to the end of 2025. Option 2: I can get a new deal with Plusnet where they will replace the copper wire with Fibre so the I have Fibre all the way to the home (FTTH). BUT I lose the landline phone as Plusnet don't offer Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP). VOIP would allow the use of our Panasonic cordless phones via the Fibre network. Plusnet don't offer that facility full stop! However BT, OneStream, Vodafone, Zen etc do offer VOIP at an additional cost per month of around £6. Option 3: Change supplier, but before deciding on our options I really need to decide if we are going to relinquish the landline phone it will then make the choice of supplier, speed Mb/s and price comparisons a lot easier. Hope this wasn't too long winded!