Today, I'm going to talk to you about what is possibly, or probably the biggest change and shakeup in the telecoms industry that has ever been basically. That is the withdrawal of normal traditional telephone lines from use by BT Openreach.
It's been a while coming really. It's been known about for a while, but in 2025, everybody that has a normal telephone line in their home or business will not be able to keep it. It's going to be stopped. When I say normal telephone line, what I mean is a normal analog phone line or a normal ISDN phone line, which may or may not be connected to a telephone system or PBX in the office.
In 2025, all those things are going to stop, and between now and then, that means that everybody that's got a phone line, so that's everybody at home with a phone line, every business with a phone line or an ISDN connection is going to have to change it.
This is a big, big thing.
There's already been about 200 exchanges where the sale of these services, which everyone's relied upon for years and years and years has stopped. Salisbury was the first exchange that was done. There's about 200 throughout the country where you cannot now order a normal telephone line for your home or business. You cannot order an ISDN connection for your business, for your phone system.
A lot of the people in business that have been using ISDN, for example, have moved over already to VOIP or voiceover IP, which is an internet-based service, but there are many, many, many thousands of people that still have ISDN and they're going to have to do something. Likewise, everyone with a home phone is going to have to do something.
What is it they're going to do?
Well, the various suppliers, including BT, are moving people to various different alternative services. For example, if you just need a telephone, line bearing in mind that it's going to stop, you have to move to an IP-based product, which is the generic name is SoGEA, which is S-O-G-E-A, which stands for Single Order Generic Ethernet Access. What that's doing is it's moving the phone line or the connection from the old telephone exchange-type equipment onto an IP internet-type connectivity. People are going to have to move to that.
If they want the underlying phone service on that, then they're going to have to order an additional service which lies upon it. For people that perhaps need just a normal phone line, like people that have a lift, for example, in the building, they might have a PDQ credit card machine.
They might have various plant and equipment that actually needs a phone line, an alarm system, a fax. They're actually all going to have to do something.
People at home are going to have to move away from fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) broadband, to either fibre to the premises (FTTP) , which BT are very, very slowly rolling out, or they're going to have to move to this SoGEA service.
This is a big thing.
We're starting to order SoGEA services for customers because it's pointless us putting in a fibre broadband, for example, or even a copper broadband, when in a couple of years, it's going to need to be changed.
We understand what's going on.
If you would like any more information, please do get in touch with us tecwork.co.uk.
You can find us on 01892 578 666, or you can email us helpme@tecwork.co.uk.
This is a big thing.
Everyone with a phone line is going to be affected including everyone at home. I hope this message gets through to as many people as possible.
Give us a call. Thank you very much.
11 мар 2021
