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| Thread ID: 129695 | 2013-03-06 18:32:00 | A dumb question about UFB | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1331638 | 2013-03-06 18:32:00 | Hi Guys Just a dumb question about the new UFB they are rolling out. If someone connects up to the cable going down their street, do they still keep the copper line for their phoneline ? (asuming they want to stay on a landline phone.) |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1331639 | 2013-03-06 22:52:00 | Generally yes. I understand that Chorus is not removing copper. Which gives flexibility to the homeowner to choose whether to go VOIP or remain "old school". | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1331640 | 2013-03-06 22:58:00 | My understanding is that no you don't. The telecom offering will still use POTS but you will use the POTS port on the side of your ONT for your POTS line. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1331641 | 2013-03-06 23:14:00 | What actually happens is they remove the existing copper when they pull the new line through, but they install new copper for redundancy. It's all part of the same cable, so if you DO get fibre, you also get brand new internal copper wiring. If you wish to ignore the VoIP side of things you can configure the genius (if you're with orcon, dunno about other ISP ATAs) to use POTS/PSTN failover in the event of a power outage or for certain calls. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1331642 | 2013-03-06 23:50:00 | Yeah I was under the impression it wasn't mandatory to be using VoIP at this stage either. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1331643 | 2013-03-07 00:58:00 | My understanding is that no you don't. The telecom offering will still use POTS but you will use the POTS port on the side of your ONT for your POTS line. What does this mean? |
Richard (739) | ||
| 1331644 | 2013-03-07 01:11:00 | POTS = Plain Old Telephone System ONT = Optical Network Termination point (It's a little box where your Fibre ends up, on the side of your house) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1331645 | 2013-03-07 02:58:00 | Thanks Chill. I'm obviously not up with the jargon. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1331646 | 2013-03-07 20:02:00 | So the answer is that if you connect fibre up to your house and use it for your broadband then your Telecom landline phone will also use the fibre optic cable (although there will be a copper wire in the fibre optics cable. And I just found out that FIL means Father-in-law |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1331647 | 2013-03-09 02:26:00 | If you use POTS and fibre, wouldn't that mean 2 line rental charges? | Greven (91) | ||
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