questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential financial impact on residents of privately-managed leasehold retirement housing of the requirement to upgrade communal telecare alarm systems to digital infrastructure ahead of the Public Switched Telephone Network switch-off on 31 January 2027; and what steps the Government is taking to ensure those costs do not fall solely on elderly residents on fixed or low incomes.
answerText: Switching a landline from the analogue Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to digital Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) should not increase costs for the end customer.However, independent businesses, including privately managed retirement housing w...
heading: Voice over Internet Protocol: Care Homes