Line rental question
Dan Hann
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We have our phone via BT and our internet with talk talk.
I was thinking about upgrading to fibre, on talk talk site it says its £15 plus line rental. But surely the line rental is already paid to BT? How does this work?
I was thinking about upgrading to fibre, on talk talk site it says its £15 plus line rental. But surely the line rental is already paid to BT? How does this work?
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I think it is only Plusnet that will supply broadband without line rental unless you go for one of the smaller providers.
My sister and brother-in-law have line rental with BT and broadband via Talk talk, i did not that was possible now, but it seems it was because they use to be on Tiscali when Talk Talk took them over. they do get emails and phones calls asking then to change line rental over, but brother-in-law will not do that.
I think you are right in both cases.
I think OP has either to cancel internet with TT ( so long as you are out of contract) and go fully over to BT for Fibre as well or .... go fully over to TT for the phone and fibre.
Whichever way you go get an unlimited package.
When you move to TT fibre you take the whole package including telephone hence the line rental. Most of the time switching from a big provider like BT means you keep your old number.
For Fibre it is a bit different. Any ISP has to use OpenReach equipment and fibre back as far as the exchange - when they can then take traffic back onto their own private network.
Or they could go to Plusnet for fibre, then they can stay with Bt if they want to. As far as i know plusnet is the only one of the large providers that will do this, other wise the OP will need to go to a smaller provider.
When I was on fixed line broadband, I preferred the separate companies supplying broadband and landline, but then I did have have a good price for landline at the time and the broadband network I was with gave me the best service, just a shame now they been taken over by another company that seems to be running it into the ground.
Their Fibre deals are also attractively priced.
I went got BT in the end - who turned out cheaper after Quidco, Sainsburys vouchers, money off for 6 months, BT Sport etc. !!
I think the basic idea seems to be to definitely change every 18months - if one can stand the hassle! - with present "new customer" offers!
Yes went with that option as I never use the landline for calls and my phone is in a draw somewhere gathering dust. - I would use it in an emergency if my mobile wasn't working, but that's not happened yet.
Of course if you want free weekend calls then that is not the option for you.
What is CLI?
Anyway, BT are good as they do own the whole thing,
I agree that PlusNet are good and possibly the cheapest if you don't want to compare introductory offers and switch providers each time!
Ah I see! So CLI won't do much good for me, not having a phone connected.
I'm happy with what I have gone for (subject to it being installed without problem, tomorrow) but in 18 months time, I will have another look and see what's around.