Discover the 132 New Areas Where BT is Phasing Out Landlines Forever – Is Your Postcode on the List?

BT HAS revealed 132 new locations where it’s axing traditional phonelines across the UK.

The UK’s old fashioned copper landline network is gradually being switched off to make way for

Warnings have been sent to providers such as , BT, TalkTalk and to tell them to stop selling analogue products to homes that have full fibre available.

This means new homes connecting to phone and plans and customers updating their existing contracts, will have to move to fibre broadband.

Old landlines are also affected, with customers switched to something called Digital Voice instead.

, broadband customers can remain on their existing copper-based plan.

, which forces everyone with a landline to go digital.

This affects anyone with a landline phone, regardless of who their supplier is.

The call quality should be much improved but you’ll need a compatible digital home phone to take advantage.

However, for those with no broadband, BT says it’s working on different ways to keep people connected and said: “Rest assured, you won’t be left without a home phone service and you won’t pay more than you do today.”

“By phasing out legacy copper-based services in areas where fibre is now widely available, we’re ensuring customers and providers move onto faster, more reliable, digital infrastructure.

“This approach not only reduces the cost and complexity of having to maintain both old and new networks but also supports the industry-wide migration ahead of the legacy copper-based Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) now just over 12-months away, by which time everyone will need a digital phone line.”

If you want to know what service is available on your street you can visit the Openreach postcode checker to see if you have full fibre.

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