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Is eMTA phone modem required?

RobertFairfax 5 months ago

Would it be possible to use an ethernet based telephone VoIP adapter with Cox Voice? Or do you need to use a coax phone modem? If the phone modem is required and I buy a docsys 3.1 from the cox certified list, will Cox be willing to activate it for voice?

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Darkatt 5 months ago +1 verified

You will need to use Cox's voice modem for telephone service. You can use your OWN modem for Internet, which is what I do, I have a Cox DPC3212 modem for telephone service and I use my personal DG2460...
WiderMouthOpen 5 months ago +1

Just to focus in on what Darkatt said, you can't buy your own voice modem (eMTA) with Cox. They provide you one as a free lease and uses coax. The latest one is the TM3402 . FYI you can use a virtual...