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PitchWhip finds the small businesses in your area that list a landline, tells you who decides, and writes the call and the plain-English email around the official switch-off facts for their country.
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Try it on your own area: see how many businesses list a landline there, and the script that gets them moving.
How it works
Step 1: Pick your area and the kind of business
Offices, surgeries, care homes, trades, shops, hospitality. We list the ones that publish a phone number, landlines first, and say which numbers are mobiles or internet lines.
Step 2: Find who decides
We read the business's own website and, in the UK, the Companies House register for the owner or director. You choose who goes on your list.
Step 3: Know what to say
A call script and a short explainer email built on the official switch-off facts for that country, with a countdown only where an official date exists. Where there is no date, we never invent one.
Step 4: Reveal and call
Add the people to a list and reveal their direct numbers and emails. You see what it uses before anything is spent, and a miss is free.
A script built on the official facts.
Real PitchWhip screens. The people, companies, numbers and emails in them are invented.
Switch-off dates we use
Only official announcements, each with its source. A country without an official date gets a general upgrade pitch with no date in it.
Australia
Inside the NBN area, Australia's copper phone lines have already been disconnected; there is no date for the copper outside it.
Belgium
Proximus is switching off copper in Belgium area by area as fibre arrives; there is no national date.
Canada
In Canada, Bell retires copper neighbourhood by neighbourhood with letters to customers; there is no national date.
Germany
Germany has no copper switch-off date yet; the regulator has only proposed the rules for one.
Denmark
TDC NET plans to close Denmark's copper network by 2030, giving each area 13 months' notice.
Spain
Telefónica closed Spain's last copper exchanges in May 2025.
Finland
Finland's last large operator ended copper landlines in June 2026.
France
Orange is closing France's copper phone network commune by commune until 2030, and stops selling copper lines nationwide on 31 January 2027.
Arcep: Orange's copper closure plan; Banque des Territoires: the closure timetable
United Kingdom
Openreach is switching off the UK's old analogue (copper) phone lines and ISDN lines on 31 January 2027.
Openreach: the big switch-off; ISPreview, September 2026: closure date unchanged
Ireland
eir is retiring Ireland's copper network exchange by exchange; there is no national date.
Italy
FiberCop is closing Italy's copper exchanges in waves approved by AGCOM; there is no national date.
Netherlands
KPN is switching off copper in the Netherlands area by area as fibre arrives; there is no national date.
Norway
Telenor has retired Norway's copper network.
Nkom: Telenor may start clearing the copper network; Telenor confirms copper switch-off
New Zealand
Chorus plans to retire New Zealand's copper network by 2028, area by area, with notice under the Copper Withdrawal Code.
Commerce Commission: Copper Withdrawal Code (NZ Gazette); Chorus brings the copper shutdown forward to 2028
Sweden
Telia is shutting down Sweden's last copper phone network on 30 November 2026.
United States
In the US, each carrier retires copper exchange by exchange under FCC notices; there is no national date.
Telecompetitor: AT&T's copper retirement plan; Broadband Breakfast: AT&T approved to discontinue copper
European Union
The EU has proposed that member states retire copper networks between 2030 and 2035; it is not law yet.
European Commission press release IP/26/107; European Parliament legislative train: Digital Networks Act
This is information, not legal advice. You are responsible for following the marketing and calling rules of every country you contact.