Questions about SoGEA, which I don’t fully understand:
- Should I be able to benefit from this new[?] service and stop paying line rental (times 3 lines - yikes) to AA.net.uk?
- Surely this is what AA and I have been gasping for for 12 years? Is AA using/offering it now?
- Can I then cut a big chunk off my monthly AA bill by exploiting SoGEA?
- When did it become available ?
- Which other ISPs sell it? From adslmax’s recent thread we see an ISP offering the service to EUs.
- Someone such as BTW, Openreach, or both sells this to ISPs? Who? (A second sense of the term: B2B, not sales to EUs.)
- Is it available only to FTTx users, or old fashioned ADSL users too? Very worried suddenly about a catch
- Why is it so called?
As you may know, AA doesn’t do PSTN/POTS telephony. AA has always offered VoIP, which I use and I have no PSTN/POTS at all, not through anyone else. So although old fashioned telephony is something that I don’t want or need, I’m currently being charged for it, and have been for 12 years. Incoming calls + SMS on the VoIP phone number are redirected by AA to Janet’s mobile phone. I hope the phone does EE "WiFi calling", so it should work even in the bad bad spots in the house where there’s no mobile network reception because of the thick stone walls, but I’m not sure and am not sure how to test it properly. Elsewhere, EE and Three signal is excellent.
Anyway, I do resent having to pay a "line rental" tax, and want to get out of it.