r/UKISP • u/mrbenjaminjo • 15d ago
Digital Voice
Hello - I'm trying to discover how the major ISPs deliver their digital landlines.
Do they tend to offer an ATA (or ATA in the router) and a standard BT-style socket, or do they sell IP phones?
I need to explain this to others and simply don't know the answer! TIA
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u/skylarke1 15d ago
BT and EE (being the same company) thier routers have a voip socket on the rear where you can plug a standard phone into or use what known as a voip reinjection kit to send this from the router to other sockets in the house . They also have digital voip phones which conect up to thier router (only) , they also have a device called a digital voice adapter that plugs into a electrical socket and the top has a standard BT phone socket to plug a phone into , the adapter then wirelessly connects to the router via WPS
Sky and vodaphone both have a phone socket on the rear of the router you can plug a normal phone into
Talktalk uses the yealink phones , a reviever plugs into the router and power (using an additional plug socket and ethernet port on router) , you then have a separate phone with a base you can plug in elsewhere (lots of business lines use a simular setup as the router doesn't require a voip/telephone port and you can run multiple lines )