Many other people still on PSTN/copper broadband?

Stuart_W

I know it was just under one fifth of households towards the end of last year. We are still on our copper line and it's doing the job, on some retained deal from The Phone Co-op that hasn't motivated us to switch. I thought a line fault in February might have been our time, but to my surprise Openreach mended it after a fair bit of digging around. We've only recently been kicked off the annual line rental pay upfront deal (a big thing everyone was doing well over a decade ago) but as they can't now guarantee the service for a year they can't offer it. Pretty sure every house around us switched ages ago, and I thought we'd have been switched by now.

I don't know anyone else that still is on copper. Wonder if we'll make it all the way to January?

QrizB

When you say:

We are still on our copper line

Do you mean you're still using dialup internet? Or 2MBit ADSL? Copper all the way from the exchange to you?

There are tens of millions of households that still have "part fibre" where the final connection to the household is copper. But if you're copper end-to-end you're definitely in a minority.

iniltous

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6665364/many-other-people-still-on-pstn-copper-broadband

Do you have FTTP available ? , obviously for many (although that number is reducing at a pace ) only copper is available anyway , what’s more currently there is no compulsion to switch to FTTP once it’s available, but incentives to take it and penalties if you don’t ( like a better price if you recontract on FTTP , with free installation, and in comparison a poor out of contract price if remaining on copper is your choice ) these type of things are used to persuade people to use the new network once it is available but no one is currently forced.

January 2027 is the PSTN telephony network switch off not the copper pair switch off , if you have ADSL or FTTC broadband and need telephony you plug your phone into the router not the socket on the wall by Jan 2027 this has nothing to do with the FTTP rollout .

Eventually people on copper (including FTTC ) that have access to FTTP will be required to change , but we are not at that point yet , however it does seem a little odd not to take the cheaper ,more reliable and faster FTTP service if it’s available, the only situation where not taking FTTP is understandable is with renters with a d*ck for a landlord who won’t allow it .

WhichWayNow

Yep, I still have my folks on the original copper line, mainly because of the Emergency CareLine that needed updating, which has now been done.

I'll move them over to Fibre at some point, later this year.