I just did a search for this topic on YouTube and every result was the opposite of what I need! I live in a rural area with no mobile phone signal but I do have internet via a series of wifi links. I understand that certain sim cards can be set up to link with the internet to provide phone calls and text messages. In particular I need to receive security codes by text message for things like internet banking. I live in Croatia and am told that the Simpa sim card offers the facility I need but I have no idea how to set it up.
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Phone Access Via Internet
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This lack of landline phone is bothering me too. I have a good internet connection via the overhead phone lines and a good package providing unlimited internet and unlimited phone calls. My IT skills are almost zero so I'm worried as to what will happen when the overhead phone line is killed. My disabled wife is almost constantly on the phone and of course it's our contact tool for the health services. Can anyone in the know, kindly explain how we will make and receive calls when the landline is shut down.
Why would the landline be shut down?
It is going to happen when the fibre roll out has been completed. It's already in the pavement along my road and a connection cover has been left outside my front boundary by City Fibre.
As long as you have a network and a mobile phone that supports WiFi calling, it’s just a matter of enabling WiFi calling on your handset settings. I don’t know what carriers in your country use it but many phones do it - iPhones from iPhone 6 onwards for example.
No mobiles as we have no need for any. Our landline phone is a wireless thingy with four walk-around handsets dotted over the house
You'd make your calls through the fibre line instead. I don’t have a landline, all my calls go through the fibre line. It’s no big deal.
Nothing to do with mobiles.
So how would my base station master phone plug into the fibre setup?
You'd need a new handset.
The very same as I had on a copper line, and still have, after the switch to fibre....
What you do, is when you switch from copper to fibre, is get your phone number ported over to the new digital IP system. The old Master socket, no longer works, but instead, you plug your phone system into a phone socket on the new router. You have to ask for the porting, when you agree to the installation of the fibre. I pay £3 per month extra, for the phone line/number, free calls evening and weekends, but expensive outside those times, but I don't use either - my mobile calls are free 24/7, so no real need.
If power is lost, the router is dead, and the landline phone. If the landline is essential, then they will need to add a battery backup to the router, to keep the phone line working.
Nope! Your old phones, just plug into a socket on the rooter, instead of the Master socket.
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Older fibre routers, needed an IP to phone adaptor, plugged into the router - the more recent routers, come with the adaptor built in, so you can plug your phones into that.
It plugs into the router.
Also unrelated to fibre - the same applies with 'fibre' to some distant cabinet or even basic ADSL.
The disadvantage is that when power fails, so does the phone. There are battery backup solutions for situations where such things might be of concern.
That will happen now with every phone owned by every person I know. Who has a fixed rotary or pushbutton phone these days?
Me! I had/have 4x wireless phones, which will not work if power is last, but I keep an emergency phone, plugged into a live socket, behind the kitchen drawers, with the phone ready to use, in that top drawer - when we were on copper. Rather pointless now, because if we lose power, the router goes off, so we would have no line anyway.
