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Digital Voice switchover by 2025

ljm — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 14:02:05 GMT

Hello,

If DV began 2 yrs ago and only 2 million Landlines have been converted out of 29 million facing a switch to DV, how on earth are BT going to meet the 2025 target deadline? Also, adding on to this we have 1.5M homes that don't have Internet access and will no doubt require an Engineer visit. The maths simply doesn't add up BT..... or have I missed something? 🤔

Re: Digital Voice switchover by 2025

Keith_Beddoe — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 14:05:45 GMT

@ljm

Its not just BT Retail.

This two page article explains it https://www.draytek.co.uk/information/blog/the-end-of-analogue-phone-lines-pt1

Also https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/retiring-the-copper-network

Re: Digital Voice switchover by 2025

-Richie- — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 14:10:24 GMT

BT are not responsible for 29 million connections, they are responsible for the customers they provide service to, I have no idea how many have a BT landline, at a guess maybe around 7 million.

If 2 million have been done then that only leaves 5 millions, most customers who renew and have no use of a landline are ditching it, so that's less customers to migrate.
They are done automatically in batches, if that needs to speed up, I'm BT are capable of increasing it.

Re: Digital Voice switchover by 2025

ljm — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 14:46:11 GMT

There's an article re this in The Financial Mail on Sunday,re BT and Digital Voice switchover. That's where I got my stats. from. Obviously misunderstood the article then as it implied it was only about BT. No other Providers were mentioned!

Re: Digital Voice switchover by 2025

-Richie- — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 14:51:43 GMT

@ljmwrote:
Obviously misunderstood the article then as it implied it was only about BT.

Most articles fail to explain the difference between Openreach and BT Retail, ultimately the other CP's that use the Openreach network will roll out their own plans, when/how is down to them.

BT have digital voice, designed to replace the PSTN switch off.

Re: Digital Voice switchover by 2025

ljm — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:08:55 GMT

Yes, thx for that Richie. Think ur right about that one. Don't think Openreach was mentioned at all, only BT. If Openreach had been mentioned it then clearly that encompasses other Providers too.