Stop the digital switchover of land line phones.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Stop the telecommunications industry scrapping the phone network, and swapping it to a digital internet based phone network by 2025. Internet networks are always going down. There is no logical sense to scrap the phone network. The elderly would be most at risk as many do not have internet.

Many people especially the elderly would be disadvantaged as they don’t have internet. Landlines are a basic, essential, reliable source of communication. Internet is always going down and often unreliable. If someone wants emergency services, or alarm system needs to activate, or elderly person needs to press emergency panic button, and the internet has gone down, the call or signal will not go through. Land lines also work in the event of a power cut. This a ludicrous and dangerous idea.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

Petitions must call for a specific action that the UK Government or House of Commons is responsible for.

The Government sets minimum service standards for access to telecommunications, but decisions about the technology used to meet these standards (including replacing the Publicly Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to internet-based phone services are a matter for individual telecommunication providers, not the Government or House of Commons.

As a result it is not possible for the Government or House of Commons to take the action you have requested.

Timeline

14 Aug 2021	Petition opened for signatures
23 Aug 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 23 Aug 2021

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