Nadine Elliott
24 January, 2025
National

Landline switch off: Consequences of impending switch-off revealed in new survey

The elderly and vulnerable are among the millions of people being warned that they could face isolation by losing access to their landline. The alert, on the back of new research into the largest overhaul of the UK telephone network in decades, coincides with the 40th anniversary of the official retirement of Britain’s iconic red telephone boxes by BT.

Elderly and vulnerable could face isolation