OAP with PSTN only - switch to DV - WLR price increases

[licquorice]

But the technology doesn't matter, price will be the same regardless of delivery. BT will chose the most cost effective method to them. The end customer isn't impacted.

[iniltous]

I would imagine that if BT did publish their own strategy then many would assume it’s industry wide and not specific to BT .
As far as PDPL being edge cases only , that’s really dependent on what you class as an edge case, customers that are PSTN telephone only and haven’t potentially haven’t renewed their contract in years would seem to me to be edge cases …..a limited bandwidth broadband profile with a router supplied for free is a more long term solution and would be the only solution to addresses with FTTP and new telephony only customers, but it’s reasonable to assume those with standalone telephony are the same group that would be upset having their telephony dependent on ‘broadband’ and susceptible to power outages …plus with any change like that the customer has to make a positive response to a new installation (in the case of FTTP ) or accepting and fitting new equipment in the case of SoGEA, PDPL is the path of least resistance.

[BarkingMadBarking]

Thank you @iniltous 

If PDPL is the path, and it seems the most practical from the points you have made then I'd hope the end user wouldn't be penalised for using the old WLR product because the don't have any real choice (apart from having SoGEA install and migrating their PSTN to another VOIP provider) - but this would probably be more expensive.

Budgets are under pressure.

As you say, I think the WLR price increases are geared at customers with broadband that can move to DV but haven't (or don't need a landline) and not PSTN only customers. 

I'll sit and wait to see what happens.   

[iniltous]

PDPL isn’t a WLR product so should not be affected by the increased prices service providers will face for customers they have failed to move onto ‘better’ products.

[BarkingMadBarking]

Apologies for conflating. I'd thought the continued use of copper for PDPL meant WLR was still being used. 

I'll sit and wait.