Can RP (or anyone) resolve some terminology questions for me please.
Mick and others say that Voice Over Internet protocol is just another type of data packet which seems correct so you can e.g. use Skype to "Phone" your associates.
Then there is the other use of VOIP as in a VOIP Modem being one that has telephone port(s). One such device is the 2Wire 2700HGV and another as a Thompson TG 784 (2 FXS ports for phone and/or fax; Remotely
manageable.) Such modems have logic which detects calls beginning with 9 and routes them out over the PSTN and also in a broadband failure mode where all calls are routed to the PSTN. I believe I've read somewhere that the new VDSL2+ FTTC (Infinity etc.) modems do not have such facilities.
If both the above are true then we have a YES answer for Skype type VOIP and a NO answer for modem hard wired VOIP.
Kind regards,
Walter
