Post 31 January 2027 ADSL Clara net using BT copper broadband

[mat52]

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  

[imjolly · Accepted solution]

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

[gg30340]

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.

[iniltous]

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.