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They'll perhaps offer it on a tender if anyone can be arsed to remove it, but I've read there's not much copper in those cables and even if that did happen I suspect I'd have long finished refurbishing our place by then.
Hopefully.
Fox-
They are planning to do it
BT recently stated that it remained “confident” of being able to “recover” an estimated 200,000 tonnes of copper from their old legacy network through the 2030s.
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Maybe someone might steal the parts of the cable that are in the way? It's not very protected from theft, is it?
I had a dysfunctional copper line badly attached to the front of my house, some of which is no longer there but I have no idea what happened to it...
jellybaby
ChasnotRobert
PSTN switch off might happen by the end of 2025, although I'm skeptical, but that's not the same as copper switch off which is going to take a lot longer. Exchange switch off is expected to be a 4-7 year process and they have only started 5 so far.
Theoretically the copper in the BT network is worth about £1.4 billion as scrap. If you can get it in to the scrap man.