Campaigners are set to deliver a 115,000-strong petition to Sir Keir Starmer in a last-ditch bid to stop the forced rollout of digital landlines over concerns for vulnerable people.
Telecoms firms such as BT and Virgin have been rolling out new internet-based phone services for millions of households in the UK as the traditional copper-based wires become increasingly unreliable and liable to fault with age.
But there are longstanding concerns over fatal blackouts in the new digital service, which can leave elderly and vulnerable people isolated and without access to a phone in the case of an emergency.
Telecoms giants were already forced to
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