Removing telephone extensions

pramsay13 · 21 Feb 2011

I've had a look but can't find the answer elsewhere.
Our house has main BT socket plus 2 extensions. The extensions are not used as we have wireless phones so I'm looking to remove the extensions to tidy things up a bit.
From what I've read the wires on the removable half of main socket are for the extensions, so can I just take all of these out or are there some I should leave in? If so is it okay to tuck the wires back into the box?

bernardgreen · 22 Feb 2011

If your wireless telephone base station plugs into the master socket then yes you can remove all the wiring from the rear of the detachable front plate.

What will you do for phones if there is a power cut and your wireless phones no longer work ? It would be sensible to have one extension into which your wireless phone base station is plugged and have a normal phone for use during power cuts whiuch can be plugged into the master when needed.

BT may ask you to plug a normal phone in if you report a line fault so they can verify where the fault is.

pramsay13 · 27 Feb 2011

Cheers for that.
If there's a power cut and an emergency then that's when the mobile phones will be put to good use.

big-all · 27 Feb 2011

pramsay13 said:
Cheers for that.
If there's a power cut and an emergency then that's when the mobile phones will be put to good use.

except people phoning you wont know that they will just get an engadged or ringing tone

bernardgreen · 28 Feb 2011

pramsay13 said:
If there's a power cut and an emergency then that's when the mobile phones will be put to good use.

Until the batteries in the mobile phone and /or the standby power at the cell tower runs out.

And of course if everyone is using mobiles then the system might become congested.

Alarm · 28 Feb 2011

From all that a nukes been dropped, sod the phones and RUN!

PS dont do what the bloke who survived Hiroshima did, caught a train to Nagasaki!
DOH!

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