I’m quite surprised that you are a BT customers, given that you don’t appear to hold BT in high regard ( there are many other alternative service providers that won’t be ‘forcing’ what you consider to be an inferior telephony offering on you, yet ) but although you make an assertion that BT is ignoring Ofcom rules , the fact is that this rollout is at pace , and has been happening for quite some time , and Ofcom and the Government are demanding that the infrastructure is made fit for the 21st Century, that means switching to a VOIP future as far as telephony is concerned, it’s certain that this migration is being done with Ofcoms express consent, if this were against Ofcoms rules ( or wishes ) a notice to stop BT doing it would have already been issued.
BT cannot guarantee that service will be always available,( no one can ) but their supplier Openreach , obviously strive for the network to be reliable…if the current copper pair that delivers your phone service developed a fault that stopped your ( or the members of the community that you appear concerned for ) service, you ( or they ) would be in the same situation ( unable to make landline phone calls ) , so it’s not like your current service is infallible.
The spirt of the Ofcom rules is being met by FTTP being capable of being maintained by a local UPS during a power outage , the only grey area is who should be provided with a UPS for ‘free’.
As already stated it’s likely that the current lack of supply of UPS at BT is not BT arbitrarily deciding not to sell UPS ( why wouldn’t they sell them if the had some in stock ), more likely the supply chain problems that are affecting everyone.
You previously indicated that BT would see you in court, perhaps you could let us how that goes.
