Can we now buy a copper line with no voice service component aka "naked DSL"? I thought that it was coming, having read something about it in RevK’s blog a long time ago.
With A&A you can.
I took the copper pair for broadband option when I switched my remote (at Mother's home) VDSL line to A&A Home:1 in late 2017 as I had no wish to make or receive telephone calls on the line.
£10 a month. No outgoing or incoming calls.
If you plug in a phone you hear a voice saying words to the effect that this is an A&A non-voice line, presumably to avoid an OR engineer thinking it is a free pair, alternating with a quiet line test.
Just like the lower part of RevK's blog entry
Almost Naked.
See
https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/copper-pair/ and the pricing details in
https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/home1/ under INCLUDING COPPER PAIR TO SUPPORT BROADBAND SERVICE.
From the look of it this is available for ADSL too.
It looks as if the old Units tariff also supports this.
An interesting wrinkle. My home line was A&A VDSL and Pulse8 for telephony and line rental. A couple of months ago I switched to A&A VOIP retaining my number and including the copper pair option. The migration should now be complete. For the hell of it I plugged a corded phone in to the line expecting to get the announcement and quiet line test. Instead, I got a dial tone, can make a quiet line test with 17070 option 2, but cannot dial full landline or mobile numbers.