Broadband without BT's line rental?

Hi all...

With the advent of mobiles I never seem to use my BT landline. Apart from my
ADSL Virgin.net broadband connection. Any idea on how I can continue with
broadband but drop the BT landline & it's rental fee?

I've been looking at Talk Talk's

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/products/broadband/essentials

as a possible
alternative. But it still supplies 'phone service I won't use! Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

My local exchange is

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/ex...hp?ecode=NDFOL

Cheers!

Les

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On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:51:27 +0000, Les Hemmings wrote:

> Hi all...
>
> With the advent of mobiles I never seem to use my BT landline. Apart
> from my ADSL Virgin.net broadband connection. Any idea on how I can
> continue with broadband but drop the BT landline & it's rental fee?

There still has to be a pair of wires connecting you to the exchange
(cabke service aside). The cost of providing and maintaining that isn't
covered by the broadband fee. I agree that you don't necessarily want an
actual phone service, but BT control those lines (OLO providers aside,
and they all provide phone service too!).

The best you can hope for is a cheap phone service. You can get a phone
service that's incoming only, with a basic rental, from a few broadband
providers. That's probably the nearest you'll get. AAISP do that at
£11.50 per month:

http://aa.nu/broadband-services.html
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Les Hemmings wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> With the advent of mobiles I never seem to use my BT landline. Apart from my
> ADSL Virgin.net broadband connection. Any idea on how I can continue with
> broadband but drop the BT landline & it's rental fee?
>

The only way I found on a non LLU exchange was to go to AN Other ISP,
transfer the line to them at less rental than BT and go PAYG on the calls.


> I've been looking at Talk Talk's
>
> http://www.talktalk.co.uk/products/broadband/essentials
>
> as a possible
> alternative. But it still supplies 'phone service I won't use! Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> My local exchange is
>
> http://www.samknows.com/broadband/ex...hp?ecode=NDFOL
>
> Cheers!
>
> Les
>

"Les Hemmings" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all...
>
> With the advent of mobiles I never seem to use my BT landline. Apart from
> my ADSL Virgin.net broadband connection. Any idea on how I can continue
> with broadband but drop the BT landline & it's rental fee?
>
> I've been looking at Talk Talk's
>
> http://www.talktalk.co.uk/products/broadband/essentials
>
> as a possible
> alternative. But it still supplies 'phone service I won't use! Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> My local exchange is
>
> http://www.samknows.com/broadband/ex...hp?ecode=NDFOL
>
> Cheers!
>
> Les

The mobile suppliers (Three, Vodafone, O2, and the like) will also offer an
internet connection. Broadband is probably not a good description but may
be better than dial-up. In theory it's available everywhere you can use a
mobile phone, but in my experience it's available almost nowhere.

For everything except very light use it's probably more expensive than ADSL
over the phone. But it would mean that you don't have to pay anything to BT
!!!

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On 13/12/09 20:49, Paulg0 wrote:
> Do you have cable available in your street? ( www.virginmedia.com ) If
> not then your cheapest option would be TalkTalk or similar. You can
> reduce your BT line rental by moving it to someone like Primus @ £9.49
> per month instead of BT's £11.50 See
> http://www.homephonechoices.co.uk/ar...al&partner=mse
> for details

Does Virgin still operate a mobile network? If so, it would be handy if
they could offer a router with cellular for backup in the case of a
cable outage.

Are there any other companies that offer wired+cellular combination service?

Then there's WiMax/WiFi/some other wireless depending upon regional
availibility.

"Les Hemmings" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all...
> With the advent of mobiles I never seem to use my BT landline. Apart from
> my ADSL Virgin.net broadband connection. Any idea on how I can continue
> with broadband but drop the BT landline & it's rental fee?
>
> I've been looking at Talk Talk's
<snip>
>
>
If you are not a heavy user and are near a 3 cell, have you considered
PAYG 3 mobile broadband?

A 3g USB dongle (or i use a Skype S2 phone), with 5quid per month
internet add on gives me speeds around 2mbps d/l and 300kbps u/l
with a fair user limit of 2gb per month, but i often go well over that

I'm using it to send this

Steve Terry
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Thanks everyone... just ordered Talk Talk's Essentials, free connection at
the mo and you can get 12 months call package free with a code from here
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/pho...calls#talktalk

I think I just cut my BB bil in half!

Les )

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:07:20 +0000, Les Hemmings wrote:

> Thanks everyone... just ordered Talk Talk's Essentials, free connection
> at the mo and you can get 12 months call package free with a code from
> here http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/pho...calls#talktalk
>
> I think I just cut my BB bil in half!

Possibly your connection speed and reliability too...just have to wait
and see! :-)

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Bob Eager wrote:
>
> Possibly your connection speed and reliability too...just have to wait
> and see! :-)

Currently with Virgin Media.. they'd have to be pretty dire to top the
hassles i've had with them in the past!

L

Broadband provide very good service for internet. I also want to broadband connection without BT's line rental.