United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 52073
Telephone Systems: Optical Fibres
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20 September 2022
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23 September 2022 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) progress of the nationwide switch from copper phone lines to fibre and (b) resilience of fibre phone lines in rural areas.
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20 September 2022
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) progress of the nationwide switch from copper phone lines to fibre and (b) resilience of fibre phone lines in rural areas.
Source: Commons
23 September 2022
Answer
The move from traditional to digital telephony, known as Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) migration, is being led by the telecoms industry and not the government.While DCMS meets regularly with telecoms providers to discuss the progress of their m...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-09-20/52073
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1506853
- uk · wq-1506853 · source updated 23 September 2022