FVA BTFTTP

Random question which may be of interest to others is are BT keeping FVA?
A link here shows the new modem is smaller without BBU, but contains one data port and one voice?
I am assuming this means they are but with CP routers being rolled out with Voice ports this is what has brought my question, as we have FTTP with FVA (BT) as our copper line was bad so it was migrated not long after the FTTP installation in 2016
PSTN Openreach Switch off
Openreach Mini OLT FTTP

At a guess, it will be kept .... but used for �special cases� ... the norm will be, if you request a voice service from your CP, it will be via a PSTN jack on the back of the router.

This isn�t just an FTTP thing, it�s already out there on SOGEA lines.

It�s all part of the groundswell towards switching off PSTN in 2025

Things are changing ...

I discovered on Wednesday that BT Business website is now offering primarily "digital phone" on its superfast fibre deals, with the "analogue" version a bit lower down.

(That's deals that cease tonight but I expect something similar will appears soon after).

In reply to a post by thomaswarne01:

A link here shows the new modem is smaller without BBU, but contains one data port and one voice?

I read that the "new" new modem would be 1+0, i.e. data port and no voice.

BT can't "keep" FVA as OpenReach have announced a stop sell from March 2020.
Existing FVA customers will eventually be migrated to BT's new Digital Voice service.
There will be no new FVA orders after March.

BT soft launched their Digital Voice service yesterday which replaces FVA. It had been in a beta/trial period for the last 6 months or so.
They are going to gradually migrate all customers on to this from now till 2025

https://community.bt.com/t5/Landline/New-Digital-Voi...

Digital Voice is VOIP via the BT Hub's ATA port rather than the ONT's ATA port.

Previously FVA was only available to those on FTTP (as it needed the ONT).

Customers ordering FTTC or changing package via the call centre can now choose Digital Voice instead of using their PSTN line.

Edited by j0hn83 (Fri 31-Jan-20 20:12:12)

Sounds like a way to force people to use ISP routers. Or abandon home phone.

it�s just a little smaller (featuring one data port and one voice port)

is a quote from A Look at Openreach�s New Small FTTP Broadband ONT and Mini OLT

So if they are fasing it out then howcome the new modems will be provided with a tel port?

but yes i was thinking they will/might in the end force you to migrate to their own router which is not something id like to do, so may have to look into migrating to a sip/voip provider

The ONT is identical to that found in the previous ONT & BBU housing.

I suspect it will he kept for a while, there are instances of folk only having the voice service delivered via the ONT, no broadband hence no router required

The most recently announced ONT has no telephone port.

As mentioned previously OpenReach won't sell any FVA after Match 2020.

Ya live, ya learn.

What do you make of the Salisbury announcement ?