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Post 31 January 2027 ADSL Clara net using BT copper broadband

mat52 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:08:05 GMT

From my ISP in regards 31 January 2027

Your telephone lines will stop working ( yes i no ) and any ADSL services will stop working ? Wareham is NOT priority exchange For FTTP All I have £ 60 per month SoGEA over priced from Clara net, I no other ISP are available But just

how are all BT , trooli , EE ,sky and so on ADSL modem rotors that are using copper broadband going to continue to work ? if this is so . Time for Openreach post a statement as a lot misleading statement are being posted on the internet

Re: Post 31 January 2027 ADSL Clara net using BT copper broadband

imjolly — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:16:14 GMT

broadband ADSL will continue to work over the copper lines it is the PSTN phone service which is scheduled to cease in jan 2027 and moving to VOIP

Re: Post 31 January 2027 ADSL Clara net using BT copper broadband

gg30340 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:19:57 GMT

This is a BT retail forum and has nothing to do with Openreach.

However do you mean something like this.

https://www.openreach.com/news-and-opinion/2023/openreach-change-telephone-network

It is the landline telephones that are being replaced at this time. Not the copper wires/cables that carry broadband although that will eventually happen as well but not until Fibre is available as the replacement.

Digital Voice/VOIP phones can work over copper cables.

Re: Post 31 January 2027 ADSL Clara net using BT copper broadband

iniltous — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:55:39 GMT

As stated , the only thing that’s being switched off in Jan 2027 is the legacy PSTN phone system, anyone that needs telephony will need to use IP telephony by then , it’s called BT DV (Digital Voice) in the case of BT .

Something in your post isn’t clear , if you are already on SoGEA then this is irrelevant to you as you are not on PSTN anyway so not affected , if you mean your ISP has offered you SoGEA but you think it’s too expensive, plenty of other ISPs are available , it’s not true that a tiny little niche provider you use is the only provider available .

Not sure why you thing Openreach need to issue anything , you are not their customer and they are not your provider, it’s your providers job to keep you appraised.

Re: Post 31 January 2027 ADSL Clara net using BT copper broadband

mat52 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:55:27 GMT

Something in your post isn’t clear , if you are already on SoGEA then this is irrelevant to you as you are not on PSTN

Not on SoGEA, stranded copper to copper ADSL

Re: Post 31 January 2027 ADSL Clara net using BT copper broadband

chrisjp — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:10:47 GMT

"Not on SoGEA, stranded copper to copper ADSL"

In which case, if you've not been offered "fibre to the cabinet" (FTTC - VDSL) and you have a telephone "landline", then the only thing that will change before 31 Jan 2027 is that your landline will be migrated to digital voice.
This will be done externally (no techician visit to your house required) and you will be sent a BT Smarthub 2.
Then, when DV is activated you just take your telephone plug out of the wall master socket and plug it into the green socket at the back of SH2. The telephone will then work exactly as before.