Once you’ve got yourself connected to our spiffy new fibre network, you’ll probably still have your landline phone number and the BT landline over which it’s delivered to your house. It doesn’t matter who you use to provide your phone service, it still comes in over that ancient BT copper wire, and of course you’re charged line rental and call charges for using it – most of us have been paying £25-30 a month for this.
The good news is that you don’t need to do this once you’re connected to the fibre: you can move your existing number into an online telephone service over our fibre connection, ditch your BT line altogether and thereafter only pay for the calls you make, with no line rental. Oh, and the sound quality will be much, much better.
The technology used is called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP for short. In many cases, you can also continue to use your existing telephones, with the aid of a small adapter.
So this is how to set up VoIP over BCB’s fibre (or indeed, anyone else’s) network.
