Should i opt to accept ‘Digital voice’ option?

J_B

Fidden said:

Copper switch-off for 2025 has been coming for a long time.  I expect it'll drag a year or so past that target with Covid getting in the way, but it will happen.

For the outliers, it'll be satellite (avoid if you can), 4G/5G mobile or wireless broadband (2G/3G will be turned off to make more room for 4/5) or FTTP to the house where economically viable.

Was that £13k for the 5 houses, or just yours?

I know it's *supposed* to be coming but I suspect we're not the only 'outliers' and guess there are several more who are alone rather than in our huge city!

We have WISP which gives us 30Mbps most of the time, but still have the copper landline for the alarm and family preferences.

13k was just my private enquiry

littleboo

Copper retirement and PSTN switch off are two different although linked programmes. PSTN switch off means no analogue from your property, this can be done over a low bandwidth xDSL service, so a router on your existing copper pair could be used to enable digital voice if that’s the option they wanted to follow. You don’t need to remove every piece of copper before the local exchange can be switched off.

brewerdave

littleboo said:

Copper retirement and PSTN switch off are two different although linked programmes. 

Just so; our village is in the midst of FTTP rollout HOWEVER Openreach have had horrendous problems with blocked underground ducts which has meant considerable civils works in various parts of the village. If this is repeated in significant other areas around the UK ,I suspect that Cu retirement may be a fair bit later than 2025 !!