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You and Yours: BT Digital Voice, Minimalist Travel, Nights Out

BT Digital Voice, Minimalist Travel, Nights Out

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, BT Digital Voice, Minimalist Travel, Nights Out

Complaints about BT Digital Voice. The latest travel hack. Cutting back on nights out.

As BT rolls out Digital Voice once again, more complaints roll in. The minimalist bag that's changing the way we travel. 
Are you having more nights in than out lately?

We return once again to big technical problems BT customers have been experiencing with the switchover from old copper landlines to new  internet based phones. 
It's been more than a year now since BT told You and Yours it would be halting the rollout until it had found solutions to some of the technical problems that were affecting its Digital Voice customers. The drive to move people from the old copper network began in 2021. The idea was that every UK home would have their landline switched to digital by December 2025. BT restarted the rollout it in the Spring this year. Since then, listeners have come back to us, saying they're still having big problems. We speak to Andrew Ferguson, Editor of Think Broadband about why it's still going wrong for some customers.

We report on the latest travelling hack that's trending on social media - "Ryanair cabin bags". They're so-called because they match up exactly with the airline's stringent measurements which are the smallest amongst its UK competitors. Those who use the bags say they're minimalist and budget friendly with some selling for as little as £10. We speak to Chelsea Dickenson, founder of Cheap holiday expert dot com, to find out if they live up to the hype.  

We hear how people are cutting back on nights out and how it's affecting the night time economy. The latest figures from the night life company, Rekom, show more than a third of people have been going out less since Autumn 2022 because of inflation. In the last month alone more than 100 bars in the UK have been forced to close in the last month alone.  We speak to Sacha Lord, the Night Time Economy Advisor for Greater Manchester.



Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Tara Holmes

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