With Echo Connect and a compatible Echo device, you can ask Alexa to call anyone using your phone landline at home. Echo Connect routes call through your number, either landline or VoIP, so that friends and family recognise who is calling on their caller ID. And no, Alexa can't call 911, either. Easy access to emergency services is one of the big reasons why a lot of people still hang onto their landline (especially people with children), so it's hard to imagine them seeing Alexa as a legitimate replacement for the phone they've already got. Voice of the day – This free Alexa Skill challenges you to identify the famous voice from a short sound clip. To try Voice of the Day for yourself, simply say ‘Alexa, open Voice of the Day’. To repeat the sound clip, just say ‘Alexa, play the clip again’. Openreach told us that just over half of properties can be connected using existing telegraph poles – a line from the pole will then be attached to your home. But in other cases, the fibre optic cables will be delivered underground through to an external wall of your property. Openreach uses several different techniques to minimise disruption to the property – it has tools that can burrow underneath a driveway or garden, so you don’t need to worry about a large trench being dug through your patio.

The Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa built-in offers Digital Voice customers great features with crystal clear HD calling. To use these handsets you'll need to have moved over to the BT Digital voice phone service or they won't work. You’ll also be able to choose between 1 x Advanced Digital Phone with Alexa built-in or 2 x Essential Digital Phones at no extra cost. Does the Alexa service come with a caller ID? Is the caller ID displayed or does it announce caller name? Pointless – Fans of Pointless on BBC One can put themselves to the test with this free Alexa Skill to find the most obscure correct answers possible. Say ‘Alexa, play Pointless’ or ‘Alexa, ask Pointless to explain the rules’.

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When shopping for new additions to your smart home setup, look for the 'compatible with Alexa' branding. Some internet-enabled products will only work with Apple's Siri or Google Assistant, although most are compatible with more than one AI helper. How to make any speaker Alexa-compatible A positive aspect of analogue phone services is that they continue to work in a power outage. That's not true of digital services. Not everyone has a broadband connection through their phone line – they won’t – they haven’t signed up to BT Broadband. How is it going to work? We don’t have a broadband connection. The whole thing is madness. Not all phones lines work with broadband. Lots of phone lines would need to be changed. This wouldn’t have happened in the Thatcher years. Reply If you don't want to change to a digital phone service, in many cases you won't have to upgrade just yet: traditional phone services will continue to work for a couple of years. But from 2023, traditional phone services won't be offered to new or recontracting customers, and by December 2025 they will be withdrawn entirely. The move to digital phone services isn't only about infrastructure: it also offers benefits such as clearer calls, the ability to make multiple calls simultaneously and the possibility of accessing your landline in other locations.

Once set up, your phone will work in much the same way it always has. You'll be able to keep the same phone number and will still hear a dial tone when you lift the handset.

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There are a million UK voice-only customers, some of whom will not have any access to broadband. People in this group are more likely to be older, financially vulnerable, not working or from lower socioeconomic groups. Minute-Workout – This skill will suggest exercises to boost your metabolism, give you more energy and remove fat.

If you’re switching from another home phone or broadband provider, it’s easy switching your service over to BT. You can also keep your current phone number when you move to BT’s Digital Voice service. Flash briefing – Configure sources for your flash briefing in the Alexa Settings to choose the news she reports. The Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa built-in is a cordless device so it connects wirelessly to your Smart Hub 2 router. Because of this, you can use it pretty much anywhere in your home. According to BT, the phone has a 50m range indoors and a 300m range outdoors.If you didn't choose to set up Alexa when you set up your new handset for the first time, press the Alexa button and follow the on-screen steps. You’ll need a device with internet access like a smartphone or tablet to set up Alexa. If you are on a call, you can also change the volume, by pressing the navigation button up or down. Digital Voice enables exciting new features such as crystal-clear HD calling, which provides incredible sound quality on a home phone – it’s almost as if the person they’re speaking to is in the same room. Digital Voice also comes with a helpful Call Diversion feature, so if a customer is heading out, they can simply divert calls to a mobile and never miss an important conversation. Choose whether you want to change the ringtone of an internal or external call and scroll to that option.