Do I really have to change to FTTP + Digital Voice next week?

iniltous

There isn’t a ‘copper switch off ‘ , not yet anyway and for some probably they will remain on copper with no FTTP available for the best part of 10 years  , what there is though , is the PSTN switch off , that’s the way telephony is provided, its being replaced with VoIP , so your telephone plugs into the router and not the socket on the wall , VoIP works over broadband, , it doesn’t need FTTP ( full fibre ) it works equally on FTTC ( fibre to the cabinet ) broadband and ADSL ( exchange based broadband ) .

If your Now FTTC broadband is faulty , you don’t need to move to FTTP to get it fixed , if you getting the hard sell to switch to FTTP , tell them lies , say you’re a renter and can’t have new holes put in the property for FTTP , and demand that they arrange to fix your FTTC , you shouldn’t have to do that of course , all that should be necessary is to say ‘no thankyou’ if offered FTTP , but if they won’t accept that , tell them the lie about no permission to install FTTP , they don’t know it’s not true.

In time you may have no choice , take FTTP or effectively be cut off , but that is years away 

macman

The official PSTN switch off is end of 2025, but that date is more than likely to be pushed back as we approach it. But, sooner or later, you have to make the move to FTTP if you want fixed line telephony.

iniltous

The PSTN ( not copper ) switch off date was the end of 2025 but is now January 2027 ,   if the date moved once then it may move again, this  date isn’t across the board , it’s for a certain subset of phone only customers that have things like ‘lifelines’ etc connected , the overwhelming majority will still move to IP telephony by the original timescale because there is no reason for them not to, the numbers remaining after the original PSTN switch off date will be comparatively small