PSTN

Openreach is planning for the commercial launch of its Single Order Transitional Access Product (SOTAP) on December 1st.

Giacom’s latest campaign showcases the proposition Microsoft Teams Phone offers to businesses with Openreach’s Stop Sell in September 2023 and the impending 2025 Switch Off.

For businesses that have switched to digital connectivity, 54% report improved workplace flexibility, 49% report improve efficiency and 42% report enhanced technical capabilities, finds M247.

BT will begin rolling out its digital landline service, Digital Voice, in Northern Ireland with a series of supporting community engagement events planned for September.

During BT Wholesale's Partner Plus event, Gavin Jones, Head of Wholesale Channel, delivered a clear message: the time has come for resellers and their customers to embrace change. With only two months left for the stop sell and 29 months until the shutdown of BT's PSTN servers, Jones states: “it’s the end of the line, change is here.”

After sharing a regional rollout plan for its new home phone service, Digital Voice, BT has begun switching customers in the East Midlands.

Openreach has named 119 new exchange locations across the UK where it will stop selling legacy analogue services to encourage the adoption of new digital services.

Comms Council UK is calling for a centralised public awareness campaign on the PSTN switch off, finding that the publicly available information is insufficient.