Tesco Line Rental / Orange Free Broadband

[Deleted User]

I am thinking of switching my landline rental from BT to Tesco.

Currently I have Orange's free broadband, and while I pay BT for the line rental, all my calls from my landline are paid to Orange.

If I switch my landline rental to Tesco, will I still pay my calls to Orange? Or would you take that over too?

And if Tesco did take over the calls too, would Orange have a problem with that, and try to bill me themselves for the calls?

macman

I think you'll find that you can't take just line rental from Tesco, their cheapest package includes weekend calls anyway. And if you could, it's no cheaper than BT.
Orange offer you free broadband for as long as you have an Orange mobile, switching your calls to Tesco (or whoever you want) should have no impact on that.
You don't say who you currently take your call package from but I am assuming BT.

[Deleted User]

macman wrote: »

Orange offer you free broadband for as long as you have an Orange mobile, switching your calls to Tesco (or whoever you want) should have no impact on that.

That's what I'd hoped. I was nervous because when you sign up for Orange Free Broadband, they take over your landline calls too.

I currently pay BT for line rental, but my calls go through Orange (the proviso of getting free broadband was switching calls to them in the first place).

macman

I hadn't realised that the Orange package included landline calls too. In that case I think you have to stick with BT in order to leave the calls with Orange, and you're on an 18 month contract with Orange which I presume you're still under. As i said, Tesco don't do line rental only. And what would be the point?

jhp

The only supplier that allows you to have your line rental with them,and to cps your calls to someone else is BT,so to qualify for the Free Orange Broadband your need to stay with BT.

What would be the benefit of moving to Tesco anyway ?

At the present time you should be able to use the BT 1280 override code and place two incluse weekend 01/02/03/ 0845/0870 calls a month via BT to get Free Caller Display. Tesco charge £1.75 a month for this feature.

BT have to allow access to cheap call providers like 18185 so you can get cheaper calls then Orange offer you,Tesco could bar it.

Mr_Gordon_2

I've just signed up to this Orange broadband offer tonight for my Grandpa, and only at the last moment during the call was it said the calls would be moved to Orange away from BT! She then passed me onto a manager who wouldn't confirm this till I asked him directly. I'm on Orange Broadband at the moment at my house for £5 a month (no compulsary "inclusive calls") which is now discontinued I was informed. My anger at Orange aside, would this 1280 prefix allow me to make chargable calls through BT to let me keep BT Privacy (which requires two calls through BT)? I could for example add 1280 to the beginning of the numbers in my Grandpa's phonebook memory?

Heinz

1280 wouldn't work if Orange have, like Talk Talk, Sky and AOL, changed to WCLI.