BT Delay Digital Voice Deadline Until Jan. 2027

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from the previous deadline of end 2025, resulting in a delay of just over a year.

BT has run into trouble switching those with Telecare devices as well as catering for elderly & vulnerable users.

See BT scraps digital landline switch deadline 

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To continue to meet its landline Universal Service Obligations (USO) & cater for its many landline lovers, elderly and vulnerable users & those not interested in BB why can't BT/EE invent a small simple limited functionality router with a digital phone socket & not much else with the following properties & characteristics:

• Operates over ADSL or FTTC (preferred) BB whichever is available at exchange. Exchanges with no BB at all but only a PTSN would lose landlines at the switch off anyway.
• Plugs into existing BT phone socket (via DSL filter if necessary).
• Requires no major structural upheaval of Fibre boxes fitted to walls of home. Thus no change to home at all except possibly use of 1 more electric socket.
• No separate BB contract.
• This all to be included in user's current Line Rental / Calling Plan.

Such a router would also benefit Full Fibre users who wish to use their own routers in place of the supplied EE SH+ or BT SH2.