Hi, I'm new to the forum and live in the South East of England and would appreciate any help or advice regarding my question. I received a letter months ago from BT re the digital voice changeover but nothing since. I only have a landline with BT, my broadband/tv package is with Sky and I have a Sky Q hub with no port for a telephone connection. Will I receive a new hub from BT and will this replace or run alongside my Sky hub? Will my Sky Q hub still be able to be plugged into my phone socket? Sorry for my ignorance but I'm of an age where technology terrifies me lol. Thank you.
If you pay BT for ‘line rental and calls’ and have a separate bill for your broadband from Sky then you must be on a legacy product called SMPF , shared metallic path facility, this is a very old product and hasn’t been sold for many years…..
Sky will have , at some point in the past , asked you to join Sky for line as well as broadband but presumably you didn’t agree hence you remaining on a legacy ( and uncompetitive from a price point of view ) product.
Your SMPF ( Sky broadband /BT telephone) connection isn’t compatible with BT Digital Voice ( DV) as BTDV effectively needs BT broadband , because of this incompatibility, you will be amongst the last to have to change , but eventually your choice will be to either join BT for both telephone and broadband, ( that way DV will work ) , or you join Sky for telephony ( and give up the BT telephone ) what you won’t be able to do is have BTDV over Sky broadband.