BT has come up with a brilliant way of stopping people phoning to complain when their broadband goes down. In future, if your broadband isn’t working, neither will your phone. This is because of something called Digital Voice that’s going to be rolled out across the BT network by the end of 2025.
Digital Voice doesn’t mean that everyone making phone calls will sound like robots, fun though that would be. It means that, instead of plugging your phone into the telephone socket in the wall, you plug it into the back of your “wireless router”. You know, the object that makes the wifi happen – it’s got a light showing if it’s working and a range of lights for the various ways it might not be. A rainbow of illumination by which you are informed
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