I Am Going On To ‘SOTAP for Analogue‘

https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/voip/t/4777967-one...

Speaking to the Openreach and BT Executive office's again about my none standard setup they decided to put me on ‘SOTAP for Analogue‘.
Having told me last year that I was going on a new FTTP service ('WBC FTTP Up to 0.5Mbit/s / 0.5Mbit/s') for the DV/VOIP ( That may still happen one day) as well as keeping my other FTTP connection and Copper Pair.
It will save me some rearranging in my equipment cupboard .
No need for a BBU.
No changes to my phone wiring.

Any one else on SOTAP ?

if you have fttp already ........... which you do. why!

No need for a BBU ?

What happens if you have a power cut ? The router won’t stay on will it, so you will lose the voice service.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

No need for a BBU ?

What happens if you have a power cut ? The router won’t stay on will it, so you will lose the voice service.

I may be wrong but I thought the VOIP to copper transition happened in the exchange so by the time it gets to the property its just like a legacy analogue service so no need for a router or a BBU.

For a short time last year at one of our properties we had DV supplied from equipment in the exchange, this doesn't require power in the home, unless like ours it was a cordless. It is my understanding that this is for homes that have a phoneline with no internet and is supposedly a 'short term' solution.

In reply to a post by burble:

and is supposedly a 'short term' solution.

That was also my understanding

Sometimes I am amazed at the lengths people will go to and the expenses they are happy to rack up to try and push water uphill

In reply to a post by APTMAN:

It will save me some rearranging in my equipment cupboard .

and letting the dinosaurs out.

Oh yeah …. these brain farts are becoming more frequent <sigh>

In my opinion you are just kicking the can down the road, as has been stated SOTAP for analogue is a short term solution and I am surprised that you have been offered it as you already have a broadband service on your copper line and an FTTP connection. I would have thought either of these existing services would rule out SOTAP for analogue. Your discussions with BT seem to have produced an unexpected result.

So what happens when all copper based services are withdrawn? You will have to go to DV/VOIP in some form, but a separate FTTP service just for a phone seems absolutely ridiculous.