Has it be thought through? There a number of drivers for the current telecommunications changes. That means there is probably no single thought process determining the changes?Firstly, many - probably most - people now use mobile phones rather than fixed landlines and many of us use instant messaging such as WhatsApp, FB messenger Google Chat and email, Zoom, Facetime, etc for communicating with people so the traditional PSTN market is no longer the lucrative cash cow is was a decade or two ago. Secondly, most business telephone services are now based around Internet protocols. Thirdly, the government has been putting pressure on BT OpenReach and other telcos to convert two wire copper connections to fibre - which cannot support analogue PSTN connections - so we can all have supper fast broadband. Fourthly, the operational separation of OpenReach from the core BT business probably means OpenReach's concern is just to remove all copper wire from its network and considers adequate service provision of telephony using that to be the ISP and telephone providers problem. Finally, one suspects the high level policymakers aren't aware of detailed technical issues such as fibre not being able to power the consumer equipment or the consequences of it? So, has it been thought through properly, I wouldn't like to judge but I would say it hasn't been well communicated.
Michael Ixer ● 752d