Virgin Media ceasing old wired BT phone

[ppppenguin]

I think the 2025 date is more complicated than "everything fibre to home". I just don't think that's feasible on the timescale. I've seen a modern FTTH installation by Openreach. There's a small termination box, mains powered with limited battery backup, which provides DSL and POTS ports. I'm assuming that the bulk of the phone network is actually carrying voice signals as IP packets. It's a matter of where POTS to VOIP conversion is done. For most of us at present it's the exchange. It could be at the street cabinet level or it could be moved to the home. We can alaready do that, by using VOIP capable phones or a router with a POTS port.

I suspect that's what being aimed at in 2025. The POTS dialtone will be switched off and everyone will need a VOIP phone or router with POTS port.

How you get there from here, how you phase the changeover so that older people living alone with just a phoneline don't lose service is guesswork though somebody must be planning it. It may be a bit like DSO for TV, with a special scheme for those people who most need help.