Question follow-through · 10888
Voice over Internet Protocol
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure those switching from public switched telephone network landline phones to Voice over Internet Protocol landline phones are not sold unneces
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure those switching from public switched telephone network landline phones to Voice over Internet Protocol landline phones are not sold unneces
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government engages regularly with communications providers to ensure that the industry-led switch-off of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) proceeds safely and with minimum inconvenience for end users. ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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