60 year old here.

I've been taking note these last couple of years, who and how many (genuine) callers we get on our landline .

It's Six.

In view of that, I've been evaluating Sipgate's PAYG VoIP service for the last 18 months, and we're just about to put a note in six Christmas cards (again they are just about the only physical ones we're sending to !) that our 'landline' number has changed, and to ask them to put the Sipgate number in their address books.

The PSTN landline will die between now and Dec 2025, either because Plusnet will kill it, or (miracle I'm still waiting for) we move to FTTP.

I don't want to sound morbid, but I doubt any of those six folk will be ringing us by 2033.

Well said, I had my 72nd birthday last week, I changed over to VOIP with YayYay using the number they provided about a month or 2 before porting my telephone number over and upgrading from FTTC to 1Gb symetrical FTTP with Community Fibre Ltd who I have been with for over 3 years now, some of the youngsters on here wouldn't even know what Home Highway was or even dial up 🤣

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some of the youngsters on here wouldn't even know what Home Highway was or even dial up 🤣

Why would they need too? talking about 2B+D technology (e.g. BT Highway) is nothing exciting these days is it? I'm sure your parents must have experienced things you never did, its an age thing 🤣

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some of the youngsters on here wouldn't even know what Home Highway was or even dial up 🤣

Too true, I work with some 19 year olds..... my parents had Home Highway when I was living at home, it was insanely expensive

Youngsters need to go to the Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, then they might understand a bit more about how computers and the internet works.