In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Retailers are moving towards doing the voice port on their own hardware

Well BT would have to move us over to that free of charge if they were to drop FVA due to no working copper line here.

Paul

You should still be able to use BT's VOIP service. As Mr S says, you'll most likely be given a new BT router with a VOIP ATA built-in, so you can plug any analogue phone in the voice port on the router.

Just post you a new Home Hub

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Just post you a new Home Hub

Those are hubs are rubbish, I had sooo much issues and I refuse to use a product where you cannot report issues to be fixed.

Paul

In reply to a post by Blmcg:

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

I understand BT Wholesale will be scrapping FVA at some point in the future (next year?) which might explain why Openreach aren't that bothered about a BBU unit anymore as its primary function is to power the FVA port during a power cut. Good job I politely refused one a couple of years ago

https://postimg.cc/YLYBsqMr

Wholesale never sold FVA (publicly).
Openreach are stop sell on FVA next year.
BBU is no longer installed except from manual temporary process for voulnerable customers.

The BBU only powered the voice ports and fibre anyway, data ports were disabled when running on battery mode (at least on the 4+2).

Thanks for clearing that up. Probably a moot point now, but do other CPs actually have the option of buying FVA from BTW/Openreach? AFAIK its only BT Retail who offer it.

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

You should still be able to use BT's VOIP service. As Mr S says, you'll most likely be given a new BT router with a VOIP ATA built-in, so you can plug any analogue phone in the voice port on the router.

As long at that VoIP hardware can connect to our Router which is connected to the ONT that's fine, I am not going back to BT stupid rubbish Smart Hub, nothing but issues and no place to report the issues, so they never get fixed.

Paul

I just spoke to BT and they told me that they have not heard or have any plans to drop their FVA Service.

And they said to just continue using the phone on the ONT with our 3rd party router connected to the ONT and I will be fine due to FVA uses VoIP which is built into the ONT.

As for the BBU, I was told they are only installed for people that are vulnerable or certain people that ask for it.

They did say they are phasing out or have phased out the old PSTN Network from 2025.

So I don't know where this info of FVA being dropped is coming from.

Even the BTOR Price plan still has FVA on it showing its not being dropped.

*** update ***
I did just find this NGA2007/19 Notification of Fibre Voice Access stop sell, so I am going to ask BT about that.

*** update 2 ***
BT Told me the following about the above link for call providers:

FVA services that are already in place will continue to be supported, while Openreach work with CPs to migrate end customers away from FVA to an alternative method of supporting voice products.

So they are aware of it, see conflicting information even from the same team (one saying its not going and the other saying it is) LOL.

But we will see what happens.

Paul

Edited by PaulKirby (Wed 04-Sep-19 12:06:35)

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

So they are aware of it, see conflicting information even from the same team (one saying its not going and the other saying it is) LOL.

Both are correct. It is going away, in the sense that they are stopping selling it. But it's not being taken away from existing users (yet).

In reply to a post by candlerb:

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

So they are aware of it, see conflicting information even from the same team (one saying its not going and the other saying it is) LOL.

Both are correct. It is going away, in the sense that they are stopping selling it. But it's not being taken away from existing users (yet).

So what will the voice part be ?

In reply to a post by Taras:

So what will the voice part be ?

Your choice of:
* VOIP from your ISP, using an ATA port on your ISP-provided router
* VOIP from a third party, via a separate ATA that plugs into your LAN

Many people with mobiles won't bother at all. Only call centres care about fixed telephony, and they'll be all VOIP too. Hence the end of the PSTN.