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openness has announced 94 new exchange locations covering almost one million premises across the UK, where it plans to stop selling traditional copper-based phone and broadband services to encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over ultrafast full fiber connections.
The business is offering communications providers such as BT, Sky, talk Talk And VODAFONEwhich uses its network, one year’s notice that it will no longer sell older analog products and services where full fiber becomes available to most premises in these new exchange locations.
James Lilley, managed customer migration director at Openreach, said: “Taking advantage of our full fiber build progress and encouraging people to upgrade where the majority of people can access our new network is the right thing to do as it makes no sense operationally and commercially to run the legacy copper network and our new fiber network side-by-side.
“As copper’s ability to support modern communications declines, people’s urgent attention is turning to new, future-proof technologies.”