street telecoms cabinet carrying the UK's copper phone network, due to switch off on 31 January 2027

What the landline switch-off is really testing

A deadline, not a software update On 31 January 2027, Openreach switches off the old copper phone network for good. No extensions this time. Openreach has been signalling this move for the best part of a decade, and it has just written to every communications provider on its network making one point very plainly: there

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