Starlink and IP phone

lukin

There are a lot of tree branches in the vicinity of our telephone line. The repair engineer was here recently when a combine harvester took it down. He said if I wanted to safely cut away those branches he could take down the line so it wouldn't be in the way, let me get the branches cut (or the trees themselves preferably) and then come back and put the line back up.

However I won't have a landline while the line is down obviously. I have Starlink though and I am just wondering would it be possible to hook my phone up to IP and use it via Starlink while the line is down? I'd probably have to have a different phone number but I could set up a call divert on the landline number. Also would I need to buy an IP phone or could I keep the existing one I have?

I don't know much about the whole thing or if it's even possible to do what I want to do.

The Cush

My brother ported his landline number over to a VoIP provider when he installed Starlink about 2 years ago. Continues to use his existing internal phones via an ATA (analogue telephone adapter).

You won't be able to temporarily transfer your line to Starlink

con747

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058419882/starlink-and-ip-phone

If it's because you live in a bad signal area what I did after the storm when the line was down for 2 months was cancel it altogether and updated my mobile phone so I could use it for wifi calling on my broadband. So it just uses the broadband to connect to a mobile tower but you are using your mobile phones package for calls and whatever minimal data to connect I think but others could clarify it better! I haven't missed the landline at all since and now I even get text messages for the first time in 20 years in the house.

lukin

Thanks for the replies