Fibre Installation Question

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I am on normal broadband with a landline. I understand that is being switched off at some point. Will going to normal fibre (not full) require an engineer to enter my home? I have social anxiety issues and do not allow people in my house. Please help answer this. Thankyou

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@mandabee  simple answer is no - other than your phone line no longer working nothing else inside your property will change. 

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Cheers. All I could find was info about full fibre which suggests that someone needs to be inside to install whatever. At the moment that's not a possibility. I know it's a ways off, but I am glad to hears this.

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@mandabee wrote:

Will going to normal fibre (not full) require an engineer to enter my home?

Last year I converted my FTTC (normal fibre) connection, to remove the phone capability.

I did the order online, didn't need to speak to anyone, and no engineer needed to visit.

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@mandabee wrote:

I am on normal broadband with a landline. I understand that is being switched off at some point.

Are you aware that it possible to migrate your existing landline phone number to a third party VoIP provider ?.

You will need an adaptor to convert your handset, so that it plugs in to your router instead of the BT socket, allowing you to continue having a house phone, with calls going over the internet and usually at much lower cost.

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@mandabee wrote:
...... I know it's a ways off, but I am glad to hears this.

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Welcome to the Plusnet Community Fora.

It depends on how you define 'way off' and whether you are referring to moving to your existing FTTC service without having the landline phone service or moving to Full Fibre. With respect to the former, by the end of next year you will have to either:

1. Lose your landline telephone numbe.

2 Move to an ISP that provides a combined broadband and digital landline phone service, or

3, Set up a seperate digital VoIP phone service with a third party supplier.

Being forced to move to Full Fibre depends on when Openreach decide to force evey-one in your area on to this service. This could be many years away.

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