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DIGITAL PHONE LINES
The phone line just went digital.

A digital phone line looks like the phone on your desk. It behaves like software — which means you can finally tell it what to do.

For a hundred years, a phone line was a pair of copper wires nailed to your wall. It did one thing: ring.

A digital phone line is different. Your calls travel over your broadband, and the “line” itself lives in the cloud — so it can be shaped, routed, diverted and managed like any other piece of software.

Same number. Better phones. And a phone system your business actually controls — this is what that looks like.

The hardware

Meet the desk phone, reimagined

We supply Yealink handsets — the touchscreen desk phones used by millions of businesses worldwide — pre-configured before they reach you. Unbox, plug into your broadband router, and your number is live on it.
Business IP desk phone with colour touchscreen, front view

HD speakerphone · colour touchscreen · powers over the network cable · no wall socket, no engineer

Close-up of the colour touchscreen on a business IP desk phone
Incoming call · 020 7946 0018Main number → ringing Reception & Sales
Answered — desk 2Second ring · nobody missed it
The screen

Know who’s calling before you pick up

The screen shows the caller, the number they dialled and who else is already on the line — so the right person answers, first time. Your company directory, call history and voicemail sit one tap away.

  • See which number they rang. Sales line or accounts line — answer accordingly.
  • Transfer with a tap. To a colleague, another office or a mobile — the caller just hears a click.
  • Voicemail you can see. Messages listed on screen — play the one that matters first.
Programmable keys with glowing status lights on a business IP desk phone
Busy lamps

See who’s free — without leaving your chair

Every programmable key can watch a colleague’s line. The little lights tell you the whole office’s status at a glance — before you transfer a caller into thin air.

  • Steady green — free to take the call
  • Red — already on a call, don’t transfer
  • Flashing — their phone is ringing; press to scoop the call to your desk
The big difference

Digital means managed

An analogue line could only be changed by sending an engineer up a pole. A digital line is managed from a web page — by us, on your behalf, usually while you’re still on the phone telling us what you want.

Divert the main number to a mobile. Change your opening hours for a bank holiday. Add the new starter’s phone to the sales group. Small changes, done in minutes — not ticket queues.

Compare this with the features an analogue line offers →

Your phone system — managed for you
Out-of-hours divertEvenings & weekends → on-call mobile
Opening hoursMon–Fri · 8:30–17:30Bank holiday set
Ring group — SalesMain number rings three desks together3 members
Voicemail to emailMessages land in your inbox as audio filesOn
Saved — live in seconds

One call to us and it’s done — no ticket ping-pong, no engineer visit.

How it works

Where does a call go? Anywhere you want.

Your number lives in the digital exchange, not in a wall socket. When someone dials it, you decide what happens next — and can change your mind any time.
Your customer dials

The same number you’ve always had — nothing changes for them.

Your digital exchange

Checks the time, the day and your rules — in a fraction of a second.

The right desks ringReception first, sales after three rings — your rules
Mobiles join inOut on a job? The same call rings your pocket
Voicemail → emailAfter hours, messages land in your inbox by morning

Change the rules whenever you like — one call to us, live in minutes.

The feature list

Everything your old line couldn’t do

These aren’t add-ons with add-on price tags. They’re what a phone line does once it’s software.
Hunt & ring groups

One number rings three desks — or thirty. First to answer takes the call; nobody hears an engaged tone.

Auto-attendant

“Press 1 for sales, 2 for accounts” — a professional front door, recorded once, working around the clock.

Voicemail to email

Every message arrives in your inbox as an audio file — listen on any device, forward it, keep it forever.

Call recording

Record calls on demand or as standard — for training, disputes and peace of mind.

Music & messages on hold

Callers on hold hear your choice of music or messages — not silence and doubt.

Time-of-day routing

Open, closed, lunchtime, bank holiday — calls follow your diary automatically.

Busy lamps & call pick-up

See who’s free before you transfer — and scoop a ringing phone from across the room.

Your numbers, kept

Existing numbers port across and stay yours — move premises and they simply come with you.

Grow line by line

A new starter needs a phone? It’s a configuration change, not an engineer visit — add lines in minutes.

One number · every device

Your desk phone, your laptop and your pocket — all the same line

The desk phone is only one face of a digital line. The same number rings an app on your mobile and softphone on your laptop — so working from home, from a van or from the beach café looks identical to your callers. Answer at your desk, carry on from your car.

Business continuity

The phone that can’t really go down

When a copper line is cut, your number is dead until an engineer fixes the copper. When something happens to your office, a digital number just… goes somewhere else.
Snowed inNobody can reach the officeCalls ring everyone’s mobiles at home
Power cutThe whole street is darkReroutes to mobiles automatically
Moving premisesNew building, new postcodeYour number moves with you — no forwarding bodges
Flat-out busyEvery line engaged at 9amOverflow rings the next free person
Business IP desk phone on a desk in a modern UK office
Call quality

Clearer than the line you’re on now

Digital lines carry HD voice — roughly twice the audio range of an analogue call. The difference is obvious the first time you hear it: less “sorry, can you repeat that?”, more getting on with it.

Analogue line≈ 3.4 kHz audio band
3.4 kHz
Digital HD voice≈ 7 kHz audio band
7 kHz

Audio bandwidth of a standard analogue call vs a wideband HD digital call. Bars indicative, not to scale.

Quality lives and dies on the connection underneath, which is why we supply that too — FTTP full fibre, SoGEA or a dedicated leased line, engineered to carry your calls first.

2027the year analogue lines switch off
72%off call charges at wholesale rates
21 yrsof UK business telecoms — since 2005
5.0on Trustpilot from 272 reviews
An honest word

Not ready to go digital? You don’t have to be.

Most providers are using the January 2027 switch off to push businesses onto VoIP on their timetable. We’re different: if your alarms, lifts or card machines still need copper — or you’d simply rather wait — we can keep your analogue line running until 2030. Go digital because it’s better, not because you were pushed.

Rated 5 stars · 272 reviews

Businesses that made the move with us

“We have just moved to new business premises. Rebecca and the rest of the team have been exceptionally helpful and patient, making the process much less stressful.”

Clive Dann, Longlife Exhausts · Trustpilot · Nov 2024

“I’ve been with this company for many years and they never fail to impress me… phone is always answered immediately and they quickly sort issues out and keep me informed. Prices are unbeatable too, highly recommend.”

Autofix · Trustpilot · Oct 2025
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We make it easy

Going digital, without the drama

Moving a business phone line is one of those jobs that sounds scary and isn’t — when it’s planned by people who’ve done it hundreds of times. Built on the same proven SIP technology we’ve run for years.
Tell us your setup

How many lines, which numbers, who answers what. Ten minutes on the phone is usually plenty.

We build it

Numbers ported, routing configured, everything tested alongside your existing lines — before anything switches.

Phones arrive ready

Yealink handsets, pre-configured. Plug each one into your router and your number is on it.

Switch when it works

We flip over on your timetable. Your callers never notice — except the line sounds better.

Wondering what switching involves day-to-day? Here’s what changes — and what doesn’t. Pair the new lines with wholesale call charges and the saving compounds on every bill.

Get a digital phone line quote — and an honest read on timing

Tell us how many lines you run today and who supplies them. We’ll price the digital equivalent at wholesale rates — and if you’d honestly be better keeping copper a while longer, we’ll tell you that too.

Get your wholesale quote — save up to 42%

Tell us what you need and a UK-based advisor will come back to you within one working day. No obligation, no hard sell — just wholesale prices.

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