English Telephone in France

[jenny and charlie]

We want to use our brand new BT telephone in France. Does anyone know if you can get a converter to go from English to French system. It would be a shame to just throw away a brand new double telephone set.

[Bevdeforges]

I'm no expert, but if your BT telephone comes with the "standard" phone jack (RJ12, I think it is), you should be able to just snap that into a standard French telephone jack (or better yet, get an ADSL filter jack to go with your Internet line). The ADSL filters are available at most hypermarkets these days.
Cheers,
Bev

[jenny and charlie]

Many thanks Bev, we will go down the ADSL route, when we sat and thought about it that will be easiest.
Jenny and Charlie.

[wendyj]

Originally Posted by jenny and charlie

We want to use our brand new BT telephone in France. Does anyone know if you can get a converter to go from English to French system. It would be a shame to just throw away a brand new double telephone set.

Hello, No it won't work in France (well you can ring out with it, but the phone won't actually 'ring' in.) You can buy a widget for about GBP15 from places like Freesat in France, suppliers and installers for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five - but really, phones are that cheap - you can buy wireless handsets in sets of 3 or 4 for Euro60 in supermarkets now, I'd just buy a new one.