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End of the Landline: BT Aims To Move All UK Customers To VoIP by 2025 (siliconrepublic.com)
BT aims to move its UK customers to IP telephony by 2025. From a report: BT is shutting its traditional telephone network in the UK, according to an email seen by The Register. The public switched telephone network (PSTN) closure is part of the company's plans to move in a fibre network direction in terms of its infrastructure. All phone calls will eventually be made over broadband using VoIP systems, which means the company's existing wholesale line rental products, which are reliant on the PSTN, will need to be removed. BT Openreach runs the network used by all but one of the telecoms providers in the UK.
That is assuming you still have a direct wired phone.
Most people who still have a LAN Line, often will just have a cordless phone. Which doesn't work with the power out anyways.
I remember watching a friends child play with Doll house parts. There was a toy telephone (from the 1990's) her parents coudln't convince her that it was actually a telephone and not an iron.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.