Digital switch-over

New research from Zen Internet reveals that one in three UK consumers say they won’t trust a small business that only uses a mobile number - putting millions in lost sales on the line as the country’s traditional landline network shuts down.

Openreach is to stop selling legacy analogue copper-based phone/broadband services in a further 163 locations, covering more than 960,000 UK premises, to help encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over a full fibre connection.