Copper twisted pair for Telephone

[Too Late]

Hi all
We are doing a huge refurb and in the concrete floor is our copper for our telephone.
We will be organising fibre to be installed but i am wondering if there is any point paying BT to relocate my copper line to where we are having the home office in the house?

Is there any point if the plan is to have telephony over fibre around 2027?

Thanks
Nick

[Cats_pyjamas]

Maybe run in a pipe with a line in it, in anticipation, if you want your router in a specific location in the future?

[OutInTheShed]

Our home phone is connected directly to the router already.
Many regions will be switching to Digital Voice before 2027.

Bit of a moot point though as nobody has rung our home phone in the last 6 months, it was only my Mum before that, and she won't be ringing again.

I would be looking to have cable ducting for all sorts of other stuff, heating controls, alarms, ethernet, fibre, hifi audio?

[Pheo]

Run Cat6. You can patch it for whatever you need. Run more than one cable. Very versatile.

[Smurfsarepeopletoo]

Can you not relocate it yourself, just buy some Telco cable, and you could run from the existing master socket to an extension socket, or just cut the cable outside and splice it, and run to the new location externally.

[dxg]

Pheo said:

Run Cat6. You can patch it for whatever you need. Run more than one cable. Very versatile.

Yup. Terminate it all somewhere out of the way but accessible like the cupboard under the stairs, and put plenty of power sockets next to the termination point. Also provide a way of venting the cupboard.

Call it "node zero."

You'll thank yourself in the years to come.

[biggiles]

No point in running telephone cable. Definitely run some network cable.

May as well move your phone to VOIP now, no need to wait and keep paying BT £30/month instead of £2 to VOIP suppliers. And you can put it anywhere with wifi/ethernet signal.

[Cow Corner]

Not sure Openreach are even installing copper lines any more…

As others - cat 6 worth doing as part of a renovation/rewire.

[dhutch]

Slightly confused as to which bit is run within the concrete floor, as I would be surprised if it was the incoming cable to the master socket.

As said, it is fat becoming legacy tech, although we still have a FTTC connection using the copper for the last mile.

As recommended, we ran some network cable (Cat6 UTP, Cat5e works too) for wifi access points and the like, but do also use some of it for conventional connection to a vintage 1960s phone we use very sporadicaly.

Everything else is just wifi calling on mobiles.