PSTN switch off in 2025 - is this a good thing or a bad thing?

UncleZen

Think a  bit further into the future. All internet access will be wireless I very much suspect. 

JJ_Egan

virgo17 said:

mwarby said:

For FTTP they’ve stopped providing battery backup at the customer end. I think they’ve been able to persuade Ofcom that with mobiles being almost universal that it wasn’t required. Of course nothing stopping someone else proving battery backup (a desktop UPS say)

Interesting. My FTTP ONT has battery backup but it is a couple of years old now. The whole thing is fed from a UPS so it's a bit academic anyway.

Mine from this time last years has the full ONT with battery backup .

onomatopoeia99

UncleZen said:

Think a  bit further into the future. All internet access will be wireless I very much suspect. 

No.  There is only so much RF spectrum available and wireless brings a host of problems with it.

If you go in to a big data centre you'll see all the rack mounted servers are connected with ethernet cable.  Given that's a controlled environment, you'd think if wireless was going to be prevalent it would be in places like that first.  That it isn't tells you something about the speed and reliability of wireless internet..

n.hussain03

Like many this is the first I have heard of it. 
Wireless will obviously help for calls which are already digital. No doubt they will introduce data lines for all properties to deliver the VOIP. I think there are a large number of households that are mobile only or have a line for broadband only, so sort of makes sense. I wonder if they will start using all the frequencies available now, there was a part of lines they had to reserve for PSTN, may help with broadband speed delivered over copper if they cannot rollout fibre to all locations. Will be interested to see how they deal with the challenges of rolling this out to the countryside, some lines there cannot even support 256kbps.