From Draytek's guide to SOGEA:
SoGEA / SoGFast users do not have access to a phone number.
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So I still don't understand the point of BT's current 'upgrade'. You are
predicting that they will force me to switch to VOIP, which I had
expected in the first place would happen when the analogue line went
down. Why this intermediate change?
Christopher
On 14/03/2026 21:33, John Winters via GLLUG wrote:
On 14/03/2026 21:03, Christopher Currie via GLLUG wrote:
[snip]
I won't be converted to SOGEA because I now have FTTP from a separate
provider (A&A), but i do need the landline phone if possible and to
retain the number (which so many correspondents have, apart from the
issue with the special phone).
Any copper lines which you have will be converted to SOGEA as the
analogue phone system is switched off. Since you also have an FTTP
connection there would then be little point in you retaining the copper.
Retaining the same phone number is not a problem. It required a bit
of jiggery-pokery when we did it (some time ago) but it seems to be a
well-trodden path now.
Keeping a traditional physical phone is also not a problem. There are
little boxes which plug into a network port of your router and then
give you an old fashioned BT socket into which to plug a phone. Bear
in mind that your phone connection has been digital for many years -
only the last leg from exchange to your house is analogue. All that
changes here is that the digital<=>analogue conversion moves from the
exchange to inside your house.
Some personal alarm and monitoring devices may require upgrading when
you lose your analogue phone line.
John
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