Since the knowledgeable are in here, can someone tell me why I still need to have a landline paid for to the tune of £100+ per year to have fibre when it has it's own wall socket/connection, I thought it didn't run over the regular line? Surely I should be able to have FTTC fitted without needing a phone line?
It's still using the same copper line as you would on an ADSL/SDSL product, it's just a different type of filter. It's less flexible than ADSL and you can't just run filters from every extension from the house, it's has to be done from the master phone socket. That being said anyone still running separate filters should seriously look at a filter plate on the their master socket and ditch the separate filters.
If you can't get the equipment next to the master socket, like myself with lack of electrical sockets for Openreach VDSL Modem, Openreach engineers will as part of the connection fee use a "Data Extension Kit" which is just a plain old RJ11 cable that runs up to 30M, the point is, it has to come off that filter and be a dedicated socket. Really that shouldn't matter as you can just run any length of CAT from the terminating VDSL modem to your Cable/Wan Router port and put it where you want.
This is why I am very confused how on earth Soopah has a VDSL service on a dead phone line, sounds like FTTP to me but he said "metal path"?
