Using telephone line for Internet only

Vande

Hi,

I was wondering if you have any ideas for someone who either uses their telephone line for internet only or makes very very few telephone calls.

I got a BT line put in just so that I could connect to the internet with my PC. I pay £15.99 for the internet per month (using AOL because they don't disconnect you every 2 hours like other ISPs I've tried). But I also get a quarterly telphone bill from BT with about £2-£3 of calls and well over £30 SERVICE CHARGE AND LINE RENTAL, so needless to say this actually makes the internet very expensive, considering I am using the phoneline for a phone once in a blue moon.

Any help with this massive waste of money would be greatly appreciated as I am rather proud of myself with the way I have balanced my wages - buying a flat despite ony earning about £12 000 pa so any help with the things I have no control over would be invaluable.

Kind regards
Dez

Steve_xx

Dez you could move your line onto BT's Low User Rental Rebate Scheme in view of the fact that your bills are so low.

However, they will not allow you to move onto it if when they ask you tell them you have a mobile phone or you use the line for internet access.

I have it on my line and I have both! The bill for line rental alone is then reduced to around £17 per quarter.

One other point to make is that if you go onto this scheme you will not be able to least cost route your calls through other operators, unless they have a freephone 0800 or 0808 access number for you to use.

Smartasss

Beware trying to con BT over the low user scheme.

They have software (which keeps getting updated) which they apply to Low Users lines which checks to whom you are dialling 0800 numbers - if it registers that you are attempting to connect to another service (eg ISP or other call provider using an access number), then it bars the calls (as they are a breach of the low user conditions), and you cannot connect until you have "confessed" and given up the low user scheme.

millie

can they tell if you are using 18866 or 1899

Smartasss

The Light User Scheme doesn't allow you to use 3,4, or 5 digit access codes.

(If you get "caught" they just make you pay the normal rental charge from the time they catch you out.)

Kris_2

IS this scheme " BT's Low User Rental Rebate" New?

gary38uk

I.  I pay £15.99 for the internet per month (using AOL because they don't disconnect you every 2 hours like other ISPs I've tried).  Dez

why not get broadband? if you can get it.?
at £10 a month its better than AOL and will always be on.

MarkyMarkD

IS this scheme " BT's Low User Rental Rebate" New?

No, it's not new and you can't abuse it, as the previous posts have advised - they will suss you and will take you off it.

It's a service designed specifically to provide a phone line to needy people so they can make emergency (non-999) type calls. It's not meant so people can scam out of paying their line rental.

Vande

gary38uk, thanks for the information on Broadband!  Who's doing it as cheap as £10 then?

But back to the topic of the post, so no one's got any idea of how I can save money on extortionate line rental on a line that's mainly only used for internet then?

Thank you for those that attempted to help though  :)

Dez

PTLD

no way to reduce rentals unless u join an alternative tel company who offer discounted BT rentalswith CPS & with no minimum usages [ theres a few about]

u r certainly better off with broadband for few extra quid ie AOL ... as u get to use yr line for calls too at same time - if needed.

hutchie_3

Where can you get broadband for £10 mth or was that a mistake