It happened when BT Openreach gave our old copper landline a compulsory upgrade to ‘Digital Voice’, meaning all calls would be made over wifi. So, without a copper landline, my QoL has gone downhill. By the start of next year the telecommunications industry will have switched every single British landline from the copper-based analogue system to the unsatisfactory digital. The industry consensus is that the copper landline system is costly and energy-inefficient and suppliers are no longer manufacturing spare parts. Either by preserving a skeleton of the analogue system or by devising some alternative network system that isn’t so exposed?