When does the UK PSTN switch off?

BT Openreach is retiring the UK PSTN (WLR 2) on 31 January 2027. Every UK business landline must move to a digital service such as VoIP or full-fibre voice before that date.

What is the cheapest UK business VoIP?

Silux Call offers a free seat tier (1 user, 1 UK DDI, 30 minutes/month) and Pay-as-you-go from £0/month + £0.02 per UK landline minute, with no contract. Paid plans start at £6.95/user/month and come with a 30-day free trial.

Does Silux Call have a free trial, and do I need a credit card?

Yes. Every paid plan comes with a 30-day free trial and no credit card is required to start — most UK rivals offer only a 7 or 14-day trial, and several require a card up front. You can also stay on a permanently free seat with no card at all. Signing up takes about 60 seconds.

How quickly can I get a UK virtual landline number?

You can sign up in about 60 seconds and choose a UK virtual landline number (020, 0161, 03 or 0800) instantly — no engineer visit, no hardware and no contract. Existing numbers port across free on Plus and above, typically within 24 hours.

Can I keep my existing phone number?

Yes — Silux Call offers free UK number porting on Plus and above, typically completing in 24 hours. We support PAC and STAC porting workflows.

Does Silux Call work with Microsoft Teams?

Yes — Silux Call supports Microsoft Teams Direct Routing on the Pro tier, including a self-service onboarding wizard that issues the PowerShell snippet for your Teams admin.

Is Silux Call GDPR and HIPAA compliant?

Silux Call ships UK GDPR-compliant call recording with two-party consent flows, plus one-click HIPAA enrolment that locks 6-year retention, KMS-backed encryption, and PCI DTMF redaction. A one-click compliance report exports an auditor-ready PDF.

How does Silux Call block scam calls?

Silux Call screens every inbound call with an AI scam shield in under 0.5 seconds. Known HMRC, parcel, and account-spoof patterns are blocked before your phone rings — a feature no other UK business VoIP provider ships.

Free tier

Is free VoIP any good? What you really get on a free UK business phone plan

Free2026-05-277 min readBy Silux Call team

Free VoIP plans range from genuinely useful to bait-and-switch. Here is how to tell them apart, and what an honest free seat looks like.

"Free VoIP" means very different things. Some plans are a 7-day countdown; some need a card up front; some cap you so hard the product is unusable. A good free plan is real hosted VoIP you can actually run a micro-business on.

The questions to ask any free VoIP plan

Is it permanent, or a trial with a clock?
Do I need a card to start?
Do I get a real UK number, or only an extension?
Are voicemail and call-forwarding included, or paywalled?
Does it scale without changing my number?

What the Silux Call free seat gives you

Permanent, no card: 1 user, 1 UK number, 30 outbound mins/month.
Free voicemail-to-email and free call forwarding.
The same platform scales to
Pay-as-you-go
(£0.02/min) and paid tiers.
A
30-day free trial
unlocks the AI receptionist, recording and more.

When to upgrade

Move off the free seat when you need a second user, more than 30 outbound minutes, an AI receptionist, or 0800 numbers. Until then, free is genuinely enough. See every free option on the free hub.