topic Corded VoIP in Digital Home Phone

Corded VoIP

52Mike — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:11:02 GMT

My broadband and landline will shortly be moved from Plusnet to EE, so my landline will come through the broadband. Would my landline work on a corded VoIP phone connected to the router by an ethernet cable? (To explain in more detail: actually I want to connect a VoIP phone in a different room via an ethernet cable plugged into a TP-Link Powerline adapter connected to the router via my mains electrical circuit, using another TP-Link Powerline adapter connected to the router by another ethernet cable.) This is because I do not want to use Wi-Fi or a cordless DECT phone, I would like everything to be connected through cables, and I'd like to access my landline from different rooms of the house. I asked EE support who told me it would not be officially supported, but recommended that Community members might be able to advise me whether it would be likely to work or not.

Re: Corded VoIP

JimM11 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:55:41 GMT

@52Mike Not with any EE or BT hub, the Digital Voice DV supplied is proprietary in operation and NO true voip phones work at all. EE/BT will never give up the connection protocol details. You should have stayed with PN gone Fibre and moved your landline to a VOIP supplier. The EE DV system is DECT based and nothing at all to do with WiFi in the slightest...

You should in theory be able to move your landline over and port your number to a VOIP supplier with EE, as to wither it will operate correctly over a Powerline circuit you would have to try and see.

Are you currently copper connected, and any prospect off FF close for new?

Re: Corded VoIP

XRaySpeX — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:26:58 GMT

@52Mike : If you have a VoIP provider providing a phone no. for that phone, then it should work as per that provider's directions.

However if you are expecting it to work with EE's DV on a EE phone no., you're out of luck. EE are not delivering its proprietary VoIP (DV) to an Ethernet port but to an analogue phone port on back of router or to an ATA adapter.

You can still have everything phone-wise to be connected through cables, by buying normal analogue corded phones such as the BT 200 Big Button Corded Telephone