Its a much mis interpreted requirement that BT must provide the ability to contact the emergency services at all times, individual lines can be turned off , or go faulty with no dialtone , those lines won’t be able to make emergency calls, and there is no compulsion to give everyone a resilient backup line, just in case the primary one fails, plus the ubiquitous nature of mobile phones is such that an alternative is available to most people anyway , should their landline not work ( if they have a landline with telephony in the first place )
OFCOM and the Government are in agreement that the transfer to a ‘full fibre’ future will come with the necessity for the consumers property to power the equipment at their own end, ( the vast majority will have cordless phones anyway that wouldn’t work in a power cut ) , if they suspect they may be vulnerable to power outages ( which is the local power company’s problem , not BT’s ) then a UPS can provide local power to keep equipment powered for a short period ….the only grey area is, who are those that could expect to be provided with a UPS for ‘free’ by their provider, and that won’t be that many.
