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Phone wiring
Jul 5th, 2015, 12:05pm
 
Hi all, wondered if anyone can help with very old telephone wiring.

Please bear with me, my brother has an old dial type phone and does not always work so we brought him a new phone which has a normal phone plug. The problem is his old phone is hard wired to a junction box with no socket. His wiring is as follows:  Bt 2 wire (black and orange) incoming straight into junction box (no master socket) and phone 4 wires (white-green-black-red)wired from this.
Bt want £128 to fit a master socket, which I think for a old guy very expensive, and he cannot afford this.
So my question is: Can I remove the old phone wiring and fit an extension with socket to the junction box to use the new phone, and will a digital work without master socket?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks
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Re: Phone wiring
Reply #1 - Jul 5th, 2015, 12:29pm
 
Replace the junction box with a master socket, connecting the single pair from BT to the rear A and B terminals (doesn't really matter which way around).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/GENUINE-BT-OpenReach-Linebox-Connection/dp/B007ZH2PFY
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Reply #2 - Jul 5th, 2015, 1:18pm
 
Ok this was original plan but a friend told me that BT could only fit master sockets?
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Re: Phone wiring
Reply #3 - Jul 5th, 2015, 4:17pm
 
Officially that's true. BT may charge if you call them out to fit a master socket but I heard they will normally fit a master socket free if they are called out to a fault.

I'd give BT a call and report an intermittent fault. They will probably ask you to "unplug everything from the master and just plug in a phone". Tell them you can't because it's an old dial type hardwired into the wall box. With luck they will send an engineer who will fit a new master socket for you FOC.

PS: If the old phone is a BT owned phone they may even give you a new push button phone as well.

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Re: Phone wiring
Reply #4 - Jul 6th, 2015, 7:33am
 
Ok thanks, will give it a try, you never know they may have a heart?

Thanks for help.
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