'SKY' Box to 'phone land line.

[Ed Case]

For what reason does my 'SKY' box have a connection to the 'phone land line ?. Wossit do, what does it affect if it's unplugged ?.

[Rogue_Shadow]

You can unplug it if you don't purchase films or other SKY content.
It was used as a verification method, but having never used SKY I don't know if it's even used for that anymore.

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[Polarbear]

I used to have sky and if the phone line was disconnected I used to get a message every so often telling me. I THINK the software used to update by the telephone line.

However have gone to Freesat now, being a poor pensioner
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[CBFcarl]

It was used for Sky to be able to ensure that your box was where it was meant to me - some pubs used to pay for peoples subscription, and then take the box and card into the pub - Sky Sports is charged a lot differently in pubs than at home - but also, people used to take multiroom boxes to caravans, holiday homes etc because for a tenner a month, you'd get everything that you had on the main box.

With the newer boxes that connect to the internet, the need / requirement for a phone line connection disappeared. The boxes now do "callbacks" through an internet connection. If you have neither, then sky threaten to charge you full price on the multiroom boxes if there isn't a callback for three consecutive attempts.
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[eddypeck]

I'm guessing it's an old box. We used to have one plugged into the phone line and had a separate wifi sender but when we got a new box the guy said it was all on the built in wifi now so didn't need the phone line.

[CBFcarl]