That’s a pretty poorly written article in my opinion but presumably aimed at a very small subset of BT ADSL broadband customers that currently also have PSTN telephony , and in their area there is no SoGEA option to provide VDSL/FTTC and Digital Voice to replace it , and apparently the solution now is to convert the PSTN service to PDPL and install a separate new line to supply an EE broadband service ( which will also be ADSL ) which is odd in that previously it was indicated that SoTAP (ADSL without PSTN telephony ) was capable of delivering BT DV , a solution that doesn’t need a second line installed, just a suitable BT router , the customer already taking BT broadband and that PDPL was exclusively for existing BT telephony only customers (so those with no broadband at all ) this article suggests that has been dropped in favour of this two separate ‘lines’ approach.
I suspect the number of BT broadband and phone customers on ADSL /ADSL2+ that have no SoGEA option , and will need this convoluted arrangement, a new line to supply a separate EE ADSL/ADSL2+broadband service in addition to the existing line converted to a BT PDPL phone line to keep a both a broadband service and a phone service will be pretty small , and leaves unanswered why originally SOTAP with DV (given the tiny bandwidth DV needs) wasn’t introduced as first alluded to when the PSTN switch off gathered pace …., I suspect they couldn’t make SoTap and DV robust/reliable enough and with time running out for PSTN decided this was a the next best option, however inelegant.
