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The Digital Shift

Analogue to Digital- our campaign to raise awareness of the IP switch to digital phone networks by January 2027

 

 

 

 

By January 2027, analogue telephone services will be switched off as the UK’s telecoms infrastructure is upgraded to digital connectivity. This shift has urgent implications for the technology enabled care (TEC) sector and the millions of people who rely on telecare in the UK.

The transition has begun already with many telecom exchanges having converted over to fully digital. This is starting to affect functionality and connectivity today with particular risk from 2023 when BT will no longer sell analogue devices. Action and careful planning needs to begin now so that telecare and social alarm service reliability and safety is not compromised: that lives are not put at risk. Many in the sector have already started the process or completed it.

TSA calls on the TEC sector to ready themselves for the shift, upgrade their systems and recognise the opportunity digital connectivity represents to devise new service and product offerings.


 

Downloadable Guidance:

S​ocial Alarm systems: Application Guidance

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C​reated April 2024

Social Alarm systems: Easy read Guidance

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C​reated April 2024

 

TEC
Commissioner/Buyer Guidance

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(​Created Nov 2021. Last Updated Aug 2023)

 

 

Commissioner/Buyer
Printable checklist

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(C​reated Nov 2021)

 

M​obile Network Closure
Guidance

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(​Created January 2024)

 

 

Data and Cyber Security Research for Technology Enabled Care

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(​Created July 2019)

 

 

The Impact Of Analogue To Digital Migration On TEC

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(​Created 2021)

G​uidance for the transport of data in an ALL-IP Telephony world

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(​Created 2022)

 

 

 

The Digital Switchover: (explained in 2 mins)

 



Podcast

The Digital Shift and Connectivity: the very real impact on TEC services

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Further information

 

Virgin Migration Postcodes 2023/24

(​Created August 2023)



Digital Shift - Customer Awareness Letter Template



 

 

 

A Digital Future for Technology Enabled Care

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(​Created 2017)
 




 

 

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