Telecoms
Closing down the public switched telephone network
What is happening?
Back in 2018, Openreach announced that the UK would become completely fibre-optic by the 31st of December 2025, with the intention of discontinuing all new copper-based connections by September 2023.
What is stop sell?
- Once 75% of the exchange area has access to Full Fibre, Openreach will no longer offer copper-based products (i.e. traditional landlines).
- Openreach will not accept orders, changes, or upgrades to copper-based products after a 12 month period, and a stop sell notice will be issued as a warning. Congleton is in stop sell.
- All copper wire based products, such as, ADSL, FTTC, GFast, ISDN and other analogue lines will be unavailable.
What do I need to do?
An Openreach stop sell will not impact any copper-based services that have already been installed until the copper network is shut down at the end of 2025.
Don't panic!
Ignore phone calls, emails and letters with a scary sounding narrative. You have plenty of time to act. Give Bytecom a call on 01260 541510.
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