The Big Switch-off
The first commercial long-distance telephone call in Great Britain was held on 1st November 1878, with a 115 mile call between Cannon Street in London, and Norwich, using an Edison transmitter on a telegraph [...]
First 118 Openreach exchanges to withdraw copper services
Openreach starts the migration from analogue to a digital phone network, withdrawing the copper-based network from June 2021 and will complete the switchover from Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to IP by December 2025. Whereas PSTN [...]