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Discussion topic: FTTP from Gigaclear & FTTC from Sky, will Sky be able to provide when the copper connection stops?

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FTTP from Gigaclear & FTTC from Sky, will Sky be able to provide when the copper connection stops?

I have a question, at the moment I have a both FTTP 500 Mbps from Gigaclear and FTTC, over copper for the last mile or so, 40 Mbps with our phone line from Sky. Would I be right in thinking that the Sky broadband and phone line will eventually completely cease at some point in the next year or two, leaving me with just the 500 Mbps from Gigaclear? Thus Sky won't be able to provide internet or VoIP as there is no other FTTP connection available.


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Re: FTTP from Gigaclear & FTTC from Sky, will Sky be able to provide when the copper connection

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@BrianGJSteer wrote:

Would I be right in thinking that the Sky broadband and phone line will eventually completely cease at some point in the next year or two, leaving me with just the 500 Mbps from Gigaclear?


As @GD1 indicates, if the scheduled end of PSTN (originally December 2025, now December 2027) was going to kill off every remaining Openreach copper broadband connection, their ISP clients might justifiably be somewhat upset...

 

The national copper network can and will continue to carry digital data to customers who optical fibre has yet to reach, in some cases into the coming decade.  It's analogue voice telephony (and exchange power) which ceases.

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