In the UK, the phone system is switching over from the old copper lines with analogue voice signals to full fibre-to-the-premises with Digital voice lines that go over IP from the house.
This does, of course, make old phones redundant. Except that the new broadband routes also include a socket (or two) that are compatible with the old phones.
Which is great if you want a phone right by your broadband router, not so great if you want one somewhere else.
So BT produced a neat little plug-in adapter that links wirelessly to the BT broadband router and provides a phone socket anywhere there's power and a wireless signal.
I had one. It was great.
But BT's broadband is horrendously overpriced. I have switched today to Vodaphone. So I have a new broadband router. And, alas, the clever Digital Voice adapter that worked so well with the BT router is completely incompatible with the Vodaphone router.
Vodaphone do not provide an equivalent.
I do have other options, which I'm using. But I'm annoyed that the technology isn't quite standardised enough to make this all just work seamlessly when switching provider.
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