With BT services there is a 3 year notice period for the withdrawal of a product, so no need to get too emo over ADSL withdrawal

its pretty obvious adsl will never be withdrawn where there is no newer tech to replace it, that alone would be a disaster for the government, so if BT were to say eg. they find it unviable to continue supporting it, its highly probable the government would step in to lean BT the other way eg. subsidies.

In areas where newer techs are available such as FTTC, it is possible but if it ever happens then the users would probably be bumped up to the newer tech.

BT arent going to just disconnect users en masse.

Bear in mind ISPs still deliver dial up services especially those who cannot get broadband yet. In years and years and years when there's other technology to support everyone who has ADSL they may remove it but those on ADSL then will probably get a free upgrade to the newer technology.

Plus 95% of households already have a choice of two DSLAMs in their local telephone exchange.

A better question would be, what date do people think that 90% of those in the UK with a broadband subscription will have full FTTP connections to the home? Or will 4G/5G mean this will never happen?

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In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

Having active equipment distributed around the streets in a pretty uncontrolled environment is not ideal and is costly

As proven by the level of debt Virgin Media have ended up with...

Yeah but they've started making a profit this year. They'll soon have worked off the debt

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I have that vision, but hopefully will have retired and be sat in a chair in my garden by then

FTTC - Fibre To The Chair?

Commode.

I think it will be years before that happens. Still people using dial up.

I know a few people who have no interest in fibre and have no need for it. they will not change unless the price goes down.

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Commode.

Google TISP ?

the VDSL kit as per FTTC will do ADSL too, so tossing some of that into an exchange would address any hardware obsolescence issues (not to mention exchange based VDSL which the standards exist for)