2025 analogue phone line switch off

[Andrew]

Same problem I have trying to get DAB radio

[Dave Liquorice]

What's DAB?

[bert]

But but I thought if I voted labour I would have it instantly for free.

[bert]

A sophisticated system for delaying radio broadcasts so if you try listening to Test Match Special commentary whilst watching cricket on TV you are about 3 deliveries behind the actual play. It also makes the time pips totally superfluous.

[bert]

Have them sent to your landline.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I have found te reverse: test match special is about 3 balls ahead of te tV

[Ray]

No I don't, particularly with the one carrier where you have to be very careful where you put the phone down.

And a mate of mine is sometimes in a very poor reception area as was again just a week ago. Certainly wasn't possible to be sure what he was saying, but no mangled donald duck noises, just words that were not recognisable, but sounded normal.

I certainly get dropouts and call just disconnecting at times but have never had any mangled donald duck noises

Yeah, some handle it a lot better than others.

I am a light aircraft pilot and never have any problem with the radio comms but I don't think I have ever had any passenger who wasn't also a pilot who has ever been able to make any sense of the communication.

Quite a bit of that is knowing what they will be saying.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Ray used his keyboard to write :

I agree, the size of batteries in a big exchange used to be vast back in the GPO days. Entire basements filled with massive banks of batteries. 3 x 1 copper busbars run around the racks.

[Ray]

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And usually with an on site generator that is used when the mains is not available for long enough.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Ray was thinking very hard :

Yes!

[Terry Casey]

Many years ago I worked with a light aircraft pilot who had visited the control tower at Southend.

An aircraft had left their airspace earlier without contacting them. During the visit he contacted the tower asking for permissoion to enter. The droll response was "Oh, we didn't know you'd left!"

The pilot then gave his altitude as flight level 5,000!

He was asaked if he was requesting permission to land or for re-entry!

[Andrew]

That's handy. They could plant a windmill on the roof and use the genny to supply power to the grid when the wind doesn't blow (or blows too strongly)

[polygonum_on_google]

It is happening. We are getting FTTP next week and that should see an end to our copper. Not sure if they actually remove it?

Some further info:

Openreach (BT) plan to launch a new symmetric ?low speed? 500Kbps (0.5Mbps) tier on their UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which might seem odd until you realise that it?s part of their transition away from the old phone services (WLR / PSTN). Elsewhere FTTP on Demand is being trialled in apartment blocks.

At present a lot of work is going on behind the scenes in order to prepare the market for two major changes. Firstly, the gradual migration of traditional voice services to all-IP technology (e.g. VoIP) by December 2025 ? essential on full fibre lines where electrical signals are no longer used ? and, secondly, the complete switch-off of the copper network in favour of ?full fibre? / FTTP (phased ? fully completing some years after 2025).

[Vir Campestris]

They didn't remove ours. (though that was 5 years ago...)

The POTS port still doesn't take incoming calls. Must go VOIP.

Andy

[tony sayer]

Had VoIP here for what, 10 years now over VM broadband..

Also its now on the mobile as an extension line via Zoiper works very well indeed and what's best of all is there no fecking Bee Tee involved in that system:)

[tony sayer]

Language of its own isn't it;?..

[Bob Eager]

Same here, but relatively recent for VoIP *only*.

I pay my ITSP for a bare line, no number. A block of landline VoIP numbers for different purposes, and Zoiper on phone and tablet.