"Graeme" wrote in message
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Keep seeing stories regarding BT's planned switch off of analogue phone
lines in 2025 but, knowing little about telephony, and having no
particular interest in the subject, don't know what this really means for
the average home phone user.

Thoughts?

Everyone will need to buy either new phones or else a converter (essentially
analogue/digital interface) to allow existing analogue phone to work.

Either way, power will be needed for these phones or converters, which means
that a landline phone cannot be relied on during power cuts. When we were
having up-down-up-down power cuts the other night, I was able to use an "old
fashioned" corded phone to phone the power distribution people.