I was reading the Comms UK Council Briefing to Industry titled “Replacing the PSTN” , which came out recently, and the following paragraph caught my attention.
“In addition, in areas where there is no fibre available yet and WLR has been withdrawn, there will be a drastically reduced pool of providers able to offer service, since SOTAP (Single Order Transitional Access Product) will only be available to a handful of major carriers who have equipment located within BT exchanges.”
My current exchange connection is ADSL and I expect this to be to case when PSTN Switch off arrives due to my location. In which case a move to SOTAP would be required.
A glance at Samknows, shows the only providers with equipment in my exchange other than BT are Talk Talk and Sky.
I know PN is part of BT but equivalence of access requires it to trade with BT like any other provider.
This raises a couple of questions;
If I found myself in contract with PN and they were unable to support the service required, where would I stand?
If events turned out as outlined above and I needed to change ISP would I be limited to BT, Talk Talk and Sky?
Can anyone comment or have experienced moving onto SOTAP?
