📞Openreach Retires Analog Phone Network on January 31, 2027, No Delays

Your analog phone line dies in January 2027

Openreach is shutting down its legacy public switched telephone network on January 31, 2027, and the deadline is not moving. If you have an analog line somewhere in your stack, that date is now your problem. This hits more than old office phones. Point-of-sale terminals, fire and security alarms, and personal care alarms for elderly and vulnerable people all depend on PSTN connectivity. Anyone shipping hardware or software that still assumes a dial tone needs a migration plan this quarter, not next year. The switch is part of the UK government's push onto all-digital networks built on fiber. Households that ditched handsets for mobiles are mostly fine. Everyone else plugs their phone into a broadband router and uses Digital Voice. Customers without fiber will likely be moved to SOTAP for Analog, a transitional access product. Openreach says the easy migrations are done, and what's left is the hard stuff: critical connections needing supplier coordination and real testing.