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Timetable for DV

gspearson — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:17:47 GMT

I've had the messages about DV, the offer of a "free" adapter, applied for and received that, installed the SH2 (which I've had for 2 years) and am now sitting on the edge of the bed (for more than 30 days) to receive Dr DV. As I'm not being offered full fibre, all I have to do is to plug a phone in the green socket. So is this an NHS waiting list or will something actually happen?

During lockdown a squad of foresters came to clear a path to install fibre to our street telephone post serving our 14 houses - they installed a blue rope and left. Nothing since.

Re: Timetable for DV

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Re: Timetable for DV

Keith_Beddoe — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:32:03 GMT

You will still be on copper, and waiting for the bulk migration of customers, off your exchange, when all the routing data is ready. Its not a straightforward task, you just need to wait.

The provision of fibre is a totally separate issue, and not connected with DV.

Re: Timetable for DV

iniltous — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:45:19 GMT

Not sure why waiting for the exact date to be migrated to DV is causing you any anxiety at all , you know the migration to DV is coming, in the meantime nothing changes , when it’s imminent you get another communication to tell you the exact date to move your phone instrument to the SH2 phone port , between then and now you don’t need to sit and wait , you could even , if you have an extra or spare phone , connect it in advance to the SH2 that way any incoming call rings the phone in wall socket or after migration rings the SH2 phone , and with outgoing call attempts , if the wall socket phone can’t make outgoing calls , the SH2 phone will m it really is not a big deal , in fact in my case , several days after the migration I still hadn’t connected a phone to the SH2 and I received a polite email reminding me to connect to the SH2 to complete the migration.

Re: Timetable for DV

Jane2018 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 14:26:41 GMT

BT has cried wolf far too often on this. It was end of 2023 when the whole of London (where I am) was being forced into the awful DV and it did not happen. I got all ready. Made a list of many many tasks I was going to have to for the supposedly easy switch over and now we are here in 2025 and still on the analogue wonderful phones - we had a power cut for 45 minutes last week - no problem at all with phones as my landline does not have even so much as a battery in it. All that will go out the window when DV is forced on us.

Re: Timetable for DV

RIC9380 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:46:45 GMT

Jane
You're had many, many patient and helpful replies from numerous posters over the past year or so in response to your numerous posts setting out your most complicated telephony set up and illogical fears for the future. The old POTS landlines are being switched off because it is outdated technology and it's not just here in the UK but right across the world. It's going to happen!

Re: Timetable for DV

HHGTTG — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:33:38 GMT

Same here in South London Borough of Bromley. Bought mains extension cables and triple gang socket to take re siting of router near where ONT might be. Bought my own DV adapter in case I wanted to use this rather than plug main DECT phone into SH2 etc. etc. So I am still waiting or dreading, depending on one's point of view.

I've noticed in recent months that my ADSL speed has even increased to over 19 Mbps measured as WiFi and not using Ethernet cabling from the router.

Re: Timetable for DV

Keith_Beddoe — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:05:42 GMT

@HHGTTG

No sign of DV here yet in Botley Hants.

ADSL is very stable, its like having your own private connection directly to the powered equipment in the exchange. My ADSL profile changed a while back, with an increase of about 1Mb connection speed, and a profile of ADSL_G.dmt.bis. Its the .bis bit which is unusual, which may explain the faster upload speed of 1.2Mbs.

Re: Timetable for DV

RIC9380 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:16:16 GMT

* You've

Sorry. It wouldn't let me edit my original post.

Re: Timetable for DV

gspearson — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:02:50 GMT

I don't do anxiety - I was a bit wary about moving onto the SH2 as my modem and mesh system worked really well. That has been done and all is well. The flurry of paperwork implied that something was imminent but it ain't!

Finally, hardly anyone round me is on BT/OR so if we have to wait for a critical mass then when my contract ends in 12 months I might swap to another provider: teh CityFibre team have already shown me how they might put in fibre. My Victorian stone walls are not for drilling.

Re: Timetable for DV

Jane2018 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:22:38 GMT

It feels like they are toying with us rather than giving precise binding deadlines. I do realise it will happen and in theory it is as simple as plugging my landlines into the two new devices BT will have to send me as I have two older BT routers etc on the two different home landline numbers but I am very worried about the extent to which people all over the world will be able to dial into my two landline numbers easily with no faults once the DV switchver over happened. i removed about 8 landline telephones from 8 different rooms around the house and now just have the two in my home office, in readiness in 2023 about December. I could go and push them all back upstairs which makes answering easier when I am hoovering upstairs but have left it for now to prepare for the change over.