Good morning,
Just thinking ahead and sorry if this is a dumb question.
In the near future Openreach will be closing the PSTN service and moving all domestic phone services to VOIP.
Currenty I use a Sangoma FreepPBX machine + Sangoma Vega 60G gateway for my FXO PSTN connection. What will I need to change/reconfigure when Openreach make thier change.
Many thanks
Peter
rsmithuk
May 8, 2021, 10:06am
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You need to find a SIP trunk and port your PSTN numbers to that SIP provider. Configuring the trunk direct to FreePBX means you won’t need the Vega.
BigJoe
May 8, 2021, 9:28pm
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Just make sure to avoid BT’s SIP product otherwise you will have a scenario like:
Wow. Thanks for that BigJoe. We have told BT we are using our own VoIP phone system, but you could sense they were scratching their heads and inwardly thinking “oh”. And we are also constantly on their backs trying to get a date for the SIP trunk to be provided.
At one point they said an engineer would come and install their “box of tricks” which made me wonder if they were going to use a separate router or something for the SIP trunk, which meant I’d plug that directly into my SBC. But if th…
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system
June 8, 2021, 9:28pm
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