Sky Talk without a Sky hub

[pk311y]

Hello.  I have replaced my Sky hub with a Unifi Dream Machine setup.  Broadband works fine.  What I don't know is will Sky Talk work once I get my Gigaset IP base connected.  I believe I will need SIP details from Sky to program the IP base.  Will Sky provide them?

[Mark39 · Accepted solution]

@pk311y I'm afraid not. The only access to Sky's Talk (landline) service is via the broadband Hub's telephone socket.

[pk311y]

Thank you Mark for clearing that up - it's what I suspected.  This means I will have to change broadband supplier as Sky will not release my phone number as Sky Talk is bundled with broadband.  There is another little wrinkle as well, in that Sky seem unable to do any service checks unless the hub is in use.  I've never had any problems before with using e.g. TP-Link router with Plusnet broadband, rather than the Plusnet supplied one.  Sky lock you in to their router.

[TimmyBGood]

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@pk311y wrote:

Sky lock you in to their router.

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To some extent, yes: BT/EE do the same if the subscriber wants their voice service, because the scale of the customer base means doing anything else would be very difficult to support.