Copper switch-off
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Openreach extends copper ‘stop sell’ to another 1.2m premises
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Openreach says more than 1280 exchanges and 12.5 million premises across the UK are now covered by Stop Sell orders.
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Openreach closes first exchange in full fibre push
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Deddington in Oxfordshire has become the first location in the UK to see its old copper-based phone service switched off and replaced with a new digital service.
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Openreach hikes wholesale prices to accelerate digital phone switch
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The company is set to shut off the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) – which delivers most of the nation’s fixed-line phone services – in January 2027.
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What is 5G home broadband?
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5G home broadband uses the same networks as mobile phones to get you and your devices online.
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Openreach reveals next areas to go fibre only
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Householders and businesses in a further 94 exchange locations will no longer be able to order copper-based broadband and phone packages.
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Openreach’s full fibre broadband available to 20 million properties
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Only around 38 per cent of households that can order full fibre services powered by the Openreach network have made the switch.