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Phone calls via Skype - alternative?
I currently use Skype on a PC to make cheap phone calls to landlines abroad. My annual package ends this coming weekend and Skype will cease to exist from May 2025, I have therefore been looking into alternatives and I have found Planet.uk, which claims to offer cheap foreign calls from a UK landline, you first call…
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BT landline switchover
I had a dreadful rural broadband via miles of copper and switched to Starlink whilst keeping landline. Has anybody any experience of keeping a landline number with digital broadband signal NOT provided by BT through EE?
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Alternatives to Skype Number (formerly Skype In)
We now know that Skype will be closed down in May. I live abroad and have a UK Skype number that my elderly parents (and others in the UK such as their doctor) can call me on easily. WhatsApp etc. are not options for my parents. It needs to be a UK phone number. Are there any alternatives? I came across bOnline yesterday.…
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Landline to fibre optic
Good morning all, Sorry if this has been discussed before, but cannot find an answer on here or anywhere else. We are looking to change our broadband provider which is currently Sky. A lot off providers are now not offering landline. We have elderly relatives who are not on broadband, so my question is if we swap to…
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Premier Talk (Transparent Telecom and other names) [Removed by ForumTeam] rant/warning
Hello all Currently sat hear livid as to how these companies can keep on doing this 'phone slamming'. How do they continue to get away with it? A story from recent personal experience which may resonate with others, although it seems we have got lucky this time. Recently my elderly father got a phone call from Premier…
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Mis-sold Talk lines when on Fibre
Hi, I signed up with Sky over 6.5yrs ago and was told that I needed a phone line to connect to my Fibre broadband .. I’ve never changed the package but recently I realised that when on fibre, you have never needed a phone line and I’ve never used it at any point during my contract as only use my mobile. Sky are refusing to…
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TV Licence monthly direct debit errors
I recently received my TV licence renewal at £169.50 for monthly direct debit )starting April 2024). However, the monthly amounts listed for April 2024 to March 2025 inclusive are 12 x £15, which is £180. Why am I being overcharged and why don't they simply charge 11 x £14.13 plus 1 x £14.07? I asked a question via the TV…
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Sky TV
Two questions: 1. Im out of a minimum term contract and have been for months. If I threaten to cancel will they terminate my TV connection straight away or will it be 30 days? 2. Under the new rules, which Sky dont abide by, do they still email customers to say how much your increase is? Many thanks for any help or advice…
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convert tv licence visit
Hi, I know there are lots of tv licence threads & in general I understand the if you do not watch live tv, you don't need a licence/don't engage/politely refuse process & I haven't had a licence, nor needed one for YEARS. this morning I get a guy who says, "I'm from a meter reading company nd I've been asked to pass you…
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TalkTalk Broadband renewal due? ALWAYS CHAT TO THEM FIRST!
My TT contract (Fibre 65+mobile) is due to expire soon and I got several emails asking me to renew. If I had simply accepted the new price (£33/mnth) then I would also have had to renew my mobile contract (which was previously free as it was included in previous package) which would have cost me approx £5/mnth. So I used…
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Problems switching from virgin media fibre
Hello, I am after some advice. Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but quite often the threads don't cover exactly what I am asking. I currently have part fibre broadband with Virgin Media. There is no other 'copper' line coming into the property. When I try to see about switching to other providers, it seems…
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Cancelled TV License
I have had a TV License for years but haven't watched live TV so decided to cancel this month. I have always paid for a 12 month period but due to cost of living I started to pay monthly from 31/12/24. My payment of £17+ was already deducted for this month so I cancelled the DD. When I spoke with TVL she said that she…
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VOIP or Digital voice suggestions
I am just reviewing my broadband choices. We live in a rural area, and a couple of years ago were upgraded to FTTP for our broadband, with BT. Shortly afterwards our landline was changed to BT's Digital Voice service - so we no longer have anything coming to the property over the copper line. I'm just out of contract with…
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Dad Paying over the odds for TV+Broadband (Skysports, TNT Sports (BT,EE)
Hi. Merry Christmas Everyone. Just got to dad's place for the holidays and realised he is paying what seems like way over the odds for his Digital Sports+Broadband deal. Details (He has been out of contract for a while so can change at any time). It's through BT (which I think is now EE): Big Sport £49.33This is the cost…
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084 and 087 numbers - are they now gone?
Around a decade or more ago (2010 to 2015), a bunch of Directions, Guidance and Regulations from the Department of Health, BIS, Cabinet Office, Ofcom, FCA and others, forced the removal of the vast majority of premium rate 084 and 087 numbers from various inappropriate use that had been ongoing since before 2004. Most…
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Sky Stream Ultimate £22. Just wondering?
Sky Stream Ultimate £22. Just wondering?1/ Are all the terrestrial channels in HD (they are SD over aerial but in HD over internet streaming) 2/ Is GB News included? (Didn't see it mentioned but a lot aren't)3/ Can anyone confirm ITVX and other streaming services are available? Any obvious ommisions?
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Renew or wait until April 2nd to avoid immediate Annual increase?
My Broadband and Mobiles (x5) renewal is due 8th Feb 2025 every 2 years. This means my negotiated price is void within 6 weeks due to the annual increase. This has annoyed me for 4 years (2 renewals)! Would it pay to be off contract until April 2nd & then negotiate? Will the non contract rate increase for 6 weeks negate…
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Virgin Media Complaints Team
Does anyone have a phone number of the Virgin Media Complaints team that is not the 150 number. I have been without broadband since the 27th June, promised it would be working on the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th July and it still isn't, when I have phoned 150 they have told me that theres not a complaints team - which I find…
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Tv licence terrible attitude and treatment.
For a few years now, I have taken out a tv licence to watch TV over Christmas, this year I took the licence out on the 21st December, and cancelled today. Instead of being able to cancel online you now have to call them and answer a series of questions on why you don’t want a license, simply saying you don’t watch TV is no…
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Landline upgrade scam
There's an article in the current Computer Active. Saying there is a scam going around with people (posing as BT) asking for payment offering to upgrade their landline to digital for a fee, and then threatening to disconnect their landline if they don't pay.
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