Liverpool has the smallest share of legacy phone lines still to be upgraded of any of the UK’s 10 largest urban centres, with six per cent left to migrate before the old copper-based network is switched off at the end of January 2027, according to data published by Openreach.
The figures, which cover major cities and their surrounding areas, come with less than 20 weeks to go before the analogue Public Switched Telephone Network, or PSTN, shuts down.
Manchester is second, with just over seven per cent of legacy lines left, followed by Cardiff with just over eight per cent and Leeds with around 8.6 per cent, Openreach said.
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