BT has begun to detail its roadmap for reducing exchanges, through a blog post by Chief Security and Networks Officer, Howard Watson. It plans to go from 5,600 exchanges today to 1,000 in the 2030s.
Openreach has named 119 new exchange locations across the UK where it will stop selling legacy analogue services to encourage the adoption of new digital services.
This latest tranche of exchanges covers a further 1.25 million premises and will be officially given notice for stop sell on June 4th, 2024.
This brings the total number of locations now notified for, or actively under stop sell, to 831 exchanges covering a total of around 7.8m premises.
BT is switching off the existing analogue phoneline platform by the end of December 2025 and will stop selling analogue phone lines to new customers by September 2023, in a phased way, across the UK.