BT have now officially extended the deadline for their 'digital voice' roll out to January 31st 2027.
Pretty sure they are hoping that many of the vulnerable customers that absolutely rely on a traditional copper analogue landline, that works in a power outage, will have continued to die off. The issue is compounded by the ridiculous claims by mobile companies of 99% coverage, that is simply fairy tale nonsense. I have zero mobile signal at home, despite EE web site telling me I have excellent coverage.
More important (to me), my elderly mum also has zero mobile coverage despite web site saying it's great.
So, in a power outage I would have absolutely no mechanism for comms whatsoever. Both my mum, and I are registered as 'vulnerable', so the best I'm hoping is that the deadline will keep being extended. The government (whatever flavour) has been totally duped by this supposed digital revolution, which needs a stable electric supply to work. In the same way they think we have capacity to supply a potential 37 Million ElectricCars with charging facilities.
The one thing my mum always told me was the amazing thing about common sense was, it's really not that common!
Here is an illustration of the blatant lies that mobile operators issue on their pretend coverage of my home in a semi rural area (so no high rise buildings, or trees etc which they say will disrupt signal). You don't need to understand the actual figures of signal strength, as there is a handy analogue gauge reading from red, to green!
