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Old 30-01-2020, 12:15   #1
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Hub 4 / Telephone

Does anybody know whether or not I should have been sent a phone cable to plug my analogue phone (VM contract) into the Hub 4? Or are there some gotchas?

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Old 30-01-2020, 13:11   #2
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Re: Hub 4 / Telephone

The Hub 4 doesn't change the Telephone type you've got. So if you've got a separate line you'll keep that until Virgin Media offer an option to move across to the Hub based line.

Only if you're joining now for the first time will you automatically get a Hub based line - and you'd get the appropriate adapter.

There is an exception to this where some areas are having their standalone (called TDM) lines switched off, and migrated across to the Hub based lines. But they've had specific letters about that so it's now something you'd miss.
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Old 30-01-2020, 15:01   #3
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Re: Hub 4 / Telephone

Clear enough, thanks.
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Re: Hub 4 / Telephone

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The Hub 4 doesn't change the Telephone type you've got. So if you've got a separate line you'll keep that until Virgin Media offer an option to move across to the Hub based line.

Only if you're joining now for the first time will you automatically get a Hub based line - and you'd get the appropriate adapter.

There is an exception to this where some areas are having their standalone (called TDM) lines switched off, and migrated across to the Hub based lines. But they've had specific letters about that so it's now something you'd miss.
What would be the advantage of a hub based phone ? Seems to me best to keep the phone separate in case the hub goes down - not great in an emergency.
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Re: Hub 4 / Telephone

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What would be the advantage of a hub based phone ? Seems to me best to keep the phone separate in case the hub goes down - not great in an emergency.

Or if the Internet goes down
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Re: Hub 4 / Telephone

That's when your mobile phone comes in handy...
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Re: Hub 4 / Telephone

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What would be the advantage of a hub based phone ? Seems to me best to keep the phone separate in case the hub goes down - not great in an emergency.
There isn't really an advantage of one over the other as such at present

However for full FTTP addresses it's the only way to get a fixed line as there is no metal cable to the address, and even in some HFC areas new connections are only now cabled with coax rather than the twin coax and telco cable.

The key long term advantage is that it will allow Virgin to offer better services on the Hub based lines - some of the kit running the existing telco network is many many years old and can't be updated to new features and services.

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Or if the Internet goes down
The Hub based phone lines are on separate network with in the Hub. So it will be possible for there to be a Virgin Fibre fault that doesn't affect the phone line or vice versa.

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That's when your mobile phone comes in handy...
And for anyone that doesn't have one, Virgin will currently provide an emergency backup unit that will allow a call to 999 from a connected wired landline handset.
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Re: Hub 4 / Telephone

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The Hub based phone lines are on separate network with in the Hub. So it will be possible for there to be a Virgin Fibre fault that doesn't affect the phone line or vice versa.

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That's the bit I don't understand. I can see how the phone service would be on its own frequency but that'll be over the same glass.
Or will it? Can you please explain more?
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That's the bit I don't understand. I can see how the phone service would be on its own frequency but that'll be over the same glass.
Or will it? Can you please explain more?
If the fibre is broken you'll lose both, but there are other types of fault that may only affect one them.
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If the fibre is broken you'll lose both, but there are other types of fault that may only affect one them.
Of course I understand that. Ben was explicit about a "fibre fault".
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Re: Hub 4 / Telephone

The only advantage I can see is for Virgin Media. Only one line to install/maintain. For the customer, it's 'all your eggs in one basket/hub' !
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Of course I understand that. Ben was explicit about a "fibre fault".
With a capital F. It's the trendy new name for VM broadband.
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Re: Hub 4 / Telephone

But copper broadband is Fibre, Hybrid Coax is Fibre, Fibre is Fibre, a bowl of Muesli is probably fricking Fibre with Ooomph.
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Of course I understand that. Ben was explicit about a "fibre fault".
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With a capital F. It's the trendy new name for VM broadband.
Yes, sorry for any confusion there.
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The only advantage I can see is for Virgin Media. Only one line to install/maintain. For the customer, it's 'all your eggs in one basket/hub' !
Cost should be much lower as there's no physical line to maintain. Realistically, it's now a VoIP trunk which are cheap cheap and better quality, too.

But the price we pay for line rental is vastly inflated over the actual cost of those so I don't expect that saving to really impact customers.

It's something that would have been better 10 or 20 years ago but these days, mobile phones are everywhere and a better alternative to Landlines.
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