Openreach Accelerates Copper Retirement Across UK

BT confirms traditional landlines will be 'switched off' for 619,000 more homes in UK, is YOURS on the list?

BT-owned Openreach has halted the sale of traditional landlines to 619,000 postcodes in the UK. With the latest tranche, Openreach has now enforced Stop Sell rules for around 16.4 million homes and businesses in the UK. Given that Openreach is connected to some 32 million premises, it means that traditional copper broadband and phone products are no longer sold across more than half of UK properties.The milestone comes roughly four months before…

Openreach accelerates copper retirement across UK

Openreach has announced a further 112 new exchange locations, covering more than 619,724 newpremises across the UK, where the business plans to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband services to encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over an ultrafast Full Fibre connection. The business is giving Communication Providers (CPs) such […]

More UK homes face landline switch-off as full list of new postcodes confirmed

BT's Openreach has confirmed the next batch of postcodes where old copper landlines are being switched off.

Openreach name next 112 UK areas for copper to full fibre switch – tranche 26

Openreach (BT) has today published the next batch of 112 exchanges (Tranche 26) under their “FTTP Priority Exchange” stop sell scheme – reflecting a further 619,724 premises. This reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. […]

Openreach expands copper broadband stop sell to 112 more UK areas

Openreach has unveiled plans to to stop selling traditional copper-based phone and broadband services in a further 112 exchange areas across the UK. Affecting more than 619,000 premises, the move is part of the company’s ongoing push to encourage households and businesses to switch to faster, more reliable Full Fibre broadband. Broadband providers including BT, […]

Openreach name next 112 UK areas for copper to full fibre switch - tranche 26

Openreach (BT) has today published the next batch of 112 exchanges (Tranche 26) under their “FTTP Priority Exchange” stop sell scheme – reflecting a further 619,724 premises. This reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option, where available). Currently, there are two schemes for moving away from ol…