Switching to fibre broadband without losing one's landline
I'm having to consider switching suppliers again, because the supposedly fibre service that I've had this year has been no better (recently worse) than the standard broadband I had before. The landline connections have been hopelessly unreliable, even though the handsets are properly fitted.
Switching services advise that my area already has both BT Openreach (non-exclusive, fibre to the cabinet) and Virgin Media (fibre to the property) networks and G.Network have just laid another exclusive network in our streets. So there should be options available....
Since the exclusive networks only provide fibre broadband, however - not landline service - that's another wrinkle that I'm trying to manage. I do need to keep that facility, if it can be made sufficiently reliable, as I don't carry a mobile everywhere.
The only useful, if too sales-oriented, advice I've found online is this article: https://www.premitel.uk/consultancy/expert-advice/what-type-of-phones-for-fibre-broadband/
Has anyone else done this successfully, or found more objective advice on how to manage it? Switching providers is bad enough but changing services and possibly losing the landline number that I've had for nearly 30 years are really unnerving me.
Switching services advise that my area already has both BT Openreach (non-exclusive, fibre to the cabinet) and Virgin Media (fibre to the property) networks and G.Network have just laid another exclusive network in our streets. So there should be options available....
Since the exclusive networks only provide fibre broadband, however - not landline service - that's another wrinkle that I'm trying to manage. I do need to keep that facility, if it can be made sufficiently reliable, as I don't carry a mobile everywhere.
The only useful, if too sales-oriented, advice I've found online is this article: https://www.premitel.uk/consultancy/expert-advice/what-type-of-phones-for-fibre-broadband/
Has anyone else done this successfully, or found more objective advice on how to manage it? Switching providers is bad enough but changing services and possibly losing the landline number that I've had for nearly 30 years are really unnerving me.
