When sky published its broadband offer back in May, it said that it was going to provide the line too.

Any ideas when they will be going full LLU?

One exchange at a time (but they won't LLU them all - it's not worth the cost).

Check out your own exchange HERE.

Easynet (Sky) has 779 exchanges unbundled.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/ds...ovider=easynet
Last edited by Heinz : 10-02-2007 at 21:45

I wonder whether they've changed their mind now (I'd strongly advise against switching line rental from BT anyway).

779 exchanges unbundled but still the wording of the webpage advertising Sky Talk is:
Bearing in mind Sky Talk Freetime is the 'speak' part of the see, speak, surf £26 package, it appears line rental from Sky is not on the agenda.

Indeed, even that page has similar wording:

Last edited by Heinz : 13-02-2007 at 15:28

If you get the Sky package can you still use 18866, etc?

Yes, both Sky Talk packages are CPS (Carrier PreSelect) services and that means that you continue to pay BT for your line rental (£10.75/month by DD with online only billing) but can continue to use the likes of 18866, 1899, 18185 etc.

CPS means that, although you have a BT landline and your incoming calls still arrive on BT (so Caller Display, 1471 and 1571 work normally), you will have opted to have the BT exchange programmed so that, by default, (nearly) all your outgoing calls are sent via the CPS provider (and BT don't even 'see' the calls even though they carry the first leg).

The 'default' part of that sentence is the key to CPS. It means that, if you want, you can use a prefix to send an individual call via another provider (i.e. override the CPS programming for a single call). For example, using just a 1280 prefix will send that call out via BT, using just a 18185 prefix (not 128018185) will send that call out via www.18185.co.uk and so on.

In other words, CPS allows you still to pick the best carrier for your calls even though you've opted, normally, to use one provider (in this case, Sky Talk Freetime or Sky Talk Unlimited).

However, for standard telephony money-saving, I'd suggest THIS.

I do have sky talk package on my BT line and it works fine for me.

Only paying £11 to the BT and using sky for evening and weekend calls + Orange talk package via orange live box which gives me unlimited phone calls to 100 countries for £0 a month.