{"id":1331,"date":"2021-07-12T13:04:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2021-07-12T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:04:13","slug":"bt-digital-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/12\/bt-digital-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"BT Digital Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BT announced some time ago about discontinuing land line services to homes, what this means for you is the physical connection you currently have is being switched over to a digital one using your BT Broadband router. You can keep your existing telephone number, its will just operate over the internet instead of over copper cables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll also be able to use your existing equipment &#8220;Cordless Phones&#8221; by plugging the master base unit into the telephone port on the back of your new BT router. If you have multiple phones, then you may require additional &#8220;Digital Voice Adapters&#8221; (please contact us if you need help with this)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things to bear in mind once you&#8217;ve switched to &#8220;BT Digital Voice&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>you wont be able to use it for emergency calls (during a power outage, or broadband outage \/ problems)<\/li><li>If you have a monitored alarm that&#8217;s connected to your landline (like a health pendant or monitored burglar alarm) you&#8217;ll need to speak to your providers before moving to Digital Voice (you will need a different service, your provider can help you with this, or give us a call for advice)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact us If you need any help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further Help and information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bt.com\/help\/landline\/digital-voice-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8216;&#8221;Digital Voice&#8221; help guide can be found <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bt.com\/content\/dam\/bt\/help\/user-guides\/Digital-Voice-Adapter-userguide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT announced some time ago about discontinuing land line services to homes, what this means for you is the physical connection you currently have is being switched over to a digital one using your BT Broadband router. You can keep your existing telephone number, its will just operate over the internet instead of over copper&#8230;  <br \/><a class=\"excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/12\/bt-digital-voice\/\" title=\"ReadBT Digital Voice\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-it-guru.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}