switching broadband providers?

madinternetuser

i am currently with orange and i am paying my line rental to them aswell if i switch to tiscali for my internet and line rental , if orange give me a mac code can i just give it to tiscali and it will switch without me going back to bt and paying bt linerental sorry to sound stupid but i just dont know

skint999

Does the deal from Tiscali include line rental?

madinternetuser

yes it is broadband plus line rental payable to tiscali not bt

aliEnRIK

You pay line rental WHATEVER happens mad'.
So when you switch to ANY supplier the line rental will be included (You cant use a BT phone line connection broadband without it)
If you absolutely do NOT want the line rental the only other valid option is Virgin Cable (Meaning theyd need to drill into your house etc!)

bristolleedsfan

madinternetuser wrote: »

i am currently with orange and i am paying my line rental to them aswell if i switch to tiscali for my internet and line rental , if orange give me a mac code can i just give it to tiscali and it will switch without me going back to bt and paying bt linerental sorry to sound stupid but i just dont know

Thought this might influence your decision.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=69

madinternetuser

i want the line rental for my house phone but tiscali line rental is cheaper than bts , but i was wondering if i left orange been as phone is with them aswell would i need to go back to bt , as i left bt to join orange i dont pay bt any linerental

rmg1

I'm with Tiscali and I don't pay line rental.

I upgraded to a slightly different package with them (after a bit of a haggle) and now I'm paying around £18/month for unlimited, up-to-8mbs broadband, plus any calls to non-01/02/03 numbers.

Can remember what the package is, but they wanted to charge me £30 to upgrade so I threatened to leave and they did the upgrade for free.

aliEnRIK

rmg1 wrote: »

I'm with Tiscali and I don't pay line rental.

I upgraded to a slightly different package with them (after a bit of a haggle) and now I'm paying around £18/month for unlimited, up-to-8mbs broadband, plus any calls to non-01/02/03 numbers.

Can remember what the package is, but they wanted to charge me £30 to upgrade so I threatened to leave and they did the upgrade for free.

It might SEEM like you dont pay line rental. They may even have TOLD you that you dont pay line rental (BS if they did).
EVERYONE who uses a phone line pays line rental to BT in some form or other. It could even be that the prices are calculated over the year to pay it but rest assured you DO pay it. If you didnt, BT would have cut the signal!

rmg1

According to my contract and my bills so far , I pay £17-99/month for broadband, calls as described above, and aero, zilch for line rental.

Tiscali Line Rental 01/Sep/08-30/Sep/08 - £ 0.00
1571 Voicemail monthly fee 01/Sep/08-30/Sep/08 - £ 0.41
Always Withhold Number monthly fee 01/Sep/08-30/Sep/08 - £ 0.00
Broadband 01/Sep/08-30/Sep/08 - £ 17.01

aliEnRIK

Look
rmg
Ask BT if your paying line rental. if you WERNT you wouldnt be ON broadband.
I cant rememeber what line rental is but I believe its £11.50. which means your broadband is actually £6.49
(Or you pay BT direct in which case your getting ripped off)

espresso

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Look
rmg
Ask BT if your paying line rental. if you WERNT you wouldnt be ON broadband.
I cant rememeber what line rental is but I believe its £11.50. which means your broadband is actually £6.49
(Or you pay BT direct in which case your getting ripped off)

I suggest that you learn about Local Loop Unbundling before making statements like that!

:rolleyes: