Did you know the Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN) will be switched off in December 2025?

This means there will no longer be a requirement for traditional fixed line telephony and analogue services, as traditional fixed lines and calls will cease to exist.

So, if your business is still operating on traditional telephone lines (where calls are made over copper lines) you’ll have to change to digital technology.

It seems, the priority for Openreach moving forward, is to maintain a fibre first network, as a result, their legacy infrastructure is now aging and becoming difficult to maintain.

Importantly, you need to know that Openreach won’t be providing the PSTN replacement products.

As technology has changed, and telephone services can now be provided in a quality and stable way over the internet, Openreach priorities have changed. Openreach are only focused on developing the fibre network and will not provide internet telephone services.

Mark Logan (an Openreach Director) said in a statement. ‘In September 2023 we intend to stop selling products reliant on the PSTN, and in December 2025 we intend to withdraw all products reliant on the PSTN.

For those organisations still using a traditional fixed line telephone system, it’s not all bad news.

Why?

Because an internet phone system will save you up to 50% against the cost of your current system.

We’ve installed them for solicitors, cleaning companies, manufacturers, distributors, estate agents, retail businesses, construction, care organisations and schools, saving each at least 40%.

The reason we provide internet phone systems is because we can offer them in affordable monthly subscriptions, together with a fixed price guarantee that we’ll never increase your price.

You can do cool stuff with them, like mimicking the office phone on your mobile, creating virtual office numbers, multiple hunt groups, call recording and hunt group or individual voice mails.

Starting from just £9.99 a month per licence or £14.99 including the hardware, each one comes with 4,000 monthly minutes and includes support and maintenance, with no strings attached.

…you see for us, it’s all about simple honest service, which provides certainty and peace of mind.