Lose Home Highway Advantages?

At the moment I have BT's Home Highway. It includes three telephone
numbers; 1 private telephone line; 1 business line and 1 data line with its
own number which I use for ISDN fax (as well as internet access). For this
I pay £20 per month.

If I were to convert to broadband would I then have just one telephone
number on which I would have to share private, business and fax?

cheers

Davy

Davy wrote:
> At the moment I have BT's Home Highway. It includes three telephone
> numbers; 1 private telephone line; 1 business line and 1 data line
> with its own number which I use for ISDN fax (as well as internet
> access). For this I pay £20 per month.
>
> If I were to convert to broadband would I then have just one
> telephone number on which I would have to share private, business
> and fax?
>
> cheers
>
> Davy

Yep, unless you order other lines....

--
B-)
Life is pain.....
Deal with it!!

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:45:38 +0100, "Davy"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>At the moment I have BT's Home Highway. It includes three telephone
>numbers; 1 private telephone line; 1 business line and 1 data line with its
>own number which I use for ISDN fax (as well as internet access). For this
>I pay £20 per month.
>
>If I were to convert to broadband would I then have just one telephone
>number on which I would have to share private, business and fax?

Yes - but you get to choose which one to keep.

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:45:38 +0100, "Davy"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>If I were to convert to broadband would I then have just one telephone
>number on which I would have to share private, business and fax?

you'll have one line, you can have two numbers on it with distinctive
ringing or "Call Sign" - search for this on google groups.

Phil

"Jasper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrot

> >If I were to convert to broadband would I then have just one telephone
> >number on which I would have to share private, business and fax?

Plusnet give customers free (no extra cost anyhow) fax to email service. You
get your own 0870 number, the faxes turn up as images in your email. It may
help a bit.

Other ISP's may offer it too, not sure.

Jc.

> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >If I were to convert to broadband would I then have just one telephone
> >number on which I would have to share private, business and fax?

Your current costs:

Home Highway @ 23.00 per month + Internet costs approx £13 per month =
£36.00 per month

Change to:

1 x regular phone line @ approx £9.50 per month
1 x callsign additional phone number to separate your business and social
calls @ £1.50 per month
1 x free 0871 incoming fax number from
http://www.paragontel.co.uk/fax2email.html
1 x broadband connection @ approx £20 per month

Total monthly cost (excluding setup) about £31.00 per month

Your internet will be 8 times faster than on HH, you'll still have an
incoming fax number and a phone line to dial out on, and you'll be saving a
fiver a month after you've paid the setup costs

Paul

Davy wrote:

> If I were to convert to broadband would I then have just one telephone
> number on which I would have to share private, business and fax?

If you actually want to keep the capability to have two telephone calls
running at the same time, you could get a second line installed (when I
migrated from HH to ADSL it cost me approx 74 quid for the install of
the new line - the monthly rental of two lines is about the same as the
cost of HH depending on the tarrif you go for).

It is also possible to get your second HH phone number transferred to
the new telephone line if required.


--
Cheers,

John.

/================================================== ===============\
| Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk |
\================================================= ================/

"Paul G" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message

> 1 x free 0871 incoming fax number from
> http://www.paragontel.co.uk/fax2email.html

I think calls to this service are 10p per minute though, so not quite free,
but I stand to be corrected.

Jc.

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003, "Paul G" wrote:

>1 x free 0871 incoming fax number from

unless you especially want an 0871, for incoming faxes you can get
a free 0870 from a number of firms, and some ISPs (eg Demon, Inweb,
PlusNet - http://tinyurl.com/8ib9 ) so callers pay 8p/4p/2p not 10p
a minute. Although a fax might take a short time, I know I'd prefer
an 0870 or 0845 over an 0871 (0845 available from efax.com, they do
0870s free, but you can also get 020 and various European numbers if
you prefer/need, by paying a monthly fee). I've kept my HH line,
so I have a faster backup in case ADSL fails. No number changes,
but some consider the extra 9.50/month + installation a luxury.

On 2 Sep 2003, (E-Mail Removed) (Bob Eager) wrote:

>Or indeed install another line for a total cost in the 20 gbp ballpark.

How so ? I thought BT charged 74.99 for a new line, unless there's
some new deal ongoing ? Or does this assume some cable service ?