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Fibre only plan for areas
The Journal
|October 13, 2025
OPENREACH has announced a further 94 new exchange locations, covering almost one million premises across the UK, where it plans to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband services to encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over an ultrafast full fibre connection.
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‘The business is giving communication providers like BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone, that use its network, a year's notice that it will no longer be selling legacy analogue products and services where full fibre becomes available to a majority
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