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BT postpones the deadline for switching off the digital landline

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BT has extended the deadline for migrating customers from its copper-based Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to digital landlines to give vulnerable people, including telehealth users, more time to move. The state’s former telecom monopoly had planned to switch customers to internet-based services at the end of next year, but says it will now switch … Read more

BT becomes the first company to scrap the ‘ridiculous’ deadline for switching to landlines

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Are you forced to switch? Email elizabeth.haigh@mailonline.co.uk BT has scrapped its timetable to move all landline customers from traditional copper wired phones to digital, internet-based services, after months of campaigning by groups representing vulnerable customers and MailOnline. In a long-awaited move, the group, which is also responsible for EE customers, has abandoned the sector’s previous … Read more