On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 12:28:17 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

How does this fit with the PSTN switch off in 2025?

Hadn't heard that...

Where have you been? First surfaced around 17/18.

What if all you want is voice service, no broadband?

then you will get fibre, and VOIP and a battery

Define "fibre". FTTC or FTTP? We are too far from the cabinet for
VDSL to work, well it'll work but be no better than ADSL2+ which
gives us 5 Mbps. But down in the village they where lucky to get 1
Mbps. Beyond the village basically forget it.

FTTP, maybe, Tempted to say "don't make eye larf". Yes Openreach are
going for a full fibre network but I can't see that being in place by
end of 2025.

I suspect they are going to have a solution that works over 5+ miles
of copper, is easy to install (swap out the rear half of the NTE?)
and emulate analogue POTS. But where does the power come from if
there is no handy mains socket with 6' of the NTE?

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Cheers
Dave.