Monaco Telecom (MT) has earmarked the end of next year for its copper shutdown date. It comes as the Monegasque telco nears 100 percent fiber coverage. The move to phase out its aging copper network ...

Norway's Telenor Norge has confirmed the shutdown of its copper network. The Norwegian telco revealed that it switched off the network at the end of last year, as planned. The company confirmed the ...

A report from advisory firm Arthur D Little assessing the main issues that operators face in managing the legacy copper network switch-off processes concludes that having a clear, long-term ...

With the 2025 deadline looming to upgrade its network to digital services over a full-fibre connection, the UK’s leading broadband provider, Openreach, has announced a further 84 new exchange ...

Leading UK telco BT has ramped up the pace of its plans to evolve its national communications network by switching off the legacy Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) in December 2025, and has ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Analysis from Omdia’s new report Copper Switch-off Regulations and Policies ‒ 2025 has highlighted that numerous countries have already outlined their copper retirement plans ...

The FTTH Council Europe has welcomed the proposal in the Draghi Report on the future of European competitiveness to prioritise shutting down legacy copper networks and the completion of the first step ...

For more than 100 years, copper has formed the backbone for much of the world’s connectivity. And even after fiber started being used for communication networks in the 1970s, the orange metal would ...

If you're still relying on a traditional copper phone line for your landline calls or home broadband, your postcode could finally be switched over to full-fibre broadband in the coming months. As the ...

17:30, Thu, Nov 20, 2025 Updated: 17:31, Thu, Nov 20, 2025 The UK is undertaking a far-reaching project to dismantle the country's century-old network of copper phone lines and replace them with ...

European countries such as Estonia and Sweden have made significant progress in decommissioning legacy networks. In the Middle East, Qatar and the UAE are examples of countries which have implemented ...