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I'm not defending Vodafone in any way because it's obvious their service does have issues.
However expecting old rotary dial phones are now obsolete. They won't work at all once Telecom start their migration to VoIP.
No kidding. I never once mentioned the dial phone to them. However I am not on VOIP, not migrated to any fancy pants tech as yet and it's just one symptom.
Telecom better make sure there are a few more cabinets around when they do change to VOIP for all those dial up modems out there people without broadband have to use. Not to mention faxes and old eftpos machines.
Besides the dial phone is plugged in mainly for the ring. Partner is a a bit deaf and can't hear the modern phones tweets.
Yes, one day it will go in the bin with the old brick cellphone and his master clock.
First off if you are on the Red network you are a VoIP customer. Your dialtone is generated from the exchange by Vodafone's equipment which is nothing more than a voice card in their ISAM. This then converts it to VoIP and backto their softswitch. Old phones draw a lot more current and will cause issues with some piece of hardware like this.
Low speed data devices such as dialup modems, fax machines and Eftpos terminals work fine over a well engineered VoIP network.
Telecom are the least of your worries - it's the fact that with FTTH every home that moves to fibre is going to have a RGW or ATA with a locally generated dialtone, this has the potential to cause a myriad of issues as people opt for low cost VoIP carriers since their traditional large telco could well become irrevelant.
