BT Group CEO, has stated that BT intend to migrate all customers on to the IP network by 2025. There has been much deliberation in the industry as to when BT might switch off the PSTN and ISDN networks but there has never been a date set until now.
Gavin Patterson, BT Group CEO, commented “We already serve many thousands of customers in businesses using IP, our goal is by 2025 all of our voice customers will be served using an IP with a premises solution and will migrate off the traditional telephony platform.”
What this means is as from 2020 businesses will not be encouraged to buy any systems utilising the ISDN network, and rightly so, given the chaos it would bring to many businesses should they order this service only for it to become defunct within 5 years. As of August 2013, there were 3.2 million ISDN channels in the UK, and although BT do not have all of these on their network, a significant number of ISDN customers in the UK now have a date from which they will no longer be in service, so customers who are currently using them will be looking to move.
It is now time for businesses to get ahead and unlock the benefits of VoIP by switching to SIP Trunking in order to protect themselves from any issues in the future.
Benefits of SIP Trunking:
- Savings on call tariffs and line rental
- Free On-Net Calls
- Number Flexibility
- Business Continuity
If you would like more information about making the move to SIP and unlocking the benefits of VoIP please call us on 0345 408 1212.
