BT and Sky

pollyanna24

I have my line rental with BT, but we don't actually use the house phone.

We were told we needed it in order to have all the gubbins that come with Sky and Sky Plus, but is this true?

If I cancel my landline, will anything happen? Will I lose all my recordings on Sky Plus?

Just don't see the point of paying £11.25 a month if I don't need to, trying to scale back big time!

iscrimger

You only need a phone line for your Sky for receiving updates and making transactions for some interactive features. Not having a line will not stop your box from working.

You do however need a BT line if you have broadband. I sadly don't ever use my house phone but I do use broadband which requires a working BT line. Don't Sky offer their own phone service?

ColinAllCars

iscrimger wrote: »

I do use broadband which requires a working BT line.

You only normally require a BT compatible line to get broadband,it does not have to be supplied and rented from BT.

McKneff

Sky do line rental now at £10 a month

Heinz

iscrimger wrote: »

You only need a phone line for your Sky for receiving updates

Nonsense. All updates are delivered OTA.

McKneff wrote: »

Sky do line rental now at £10 a month

£11 from 1 September 2009.

Tallymanjohn

Sky want their boxed connected to a phoneline as well for interactive services & also so they get feedback on what you've been watching. First thing I did after engineer installed it was to unplug the phoneline!

pollyanna24

Thanks everyone.

I pay £11.25 to BT for their cheapest line rental as Sky told us we needed it.

We do have broadband, but we have a dongle thingie that we stick into the laptop and that is from 3 who we pay £7.50 a month for it. So, do we still need the landline phone for that as well.

iniltous

If you have Sky multi room you need a landine to keep Sky happy, Sky want multi room customers to keep the boxes connected to a phoneline so they can check the second, or third (etc) box isnt moved to another address, ( the boxes call Sky HQ and the CLI on the
line identifies the line ,and therefore the address where the box is)
if you are not a multi room customer then you dont need to keep your Sky box connected to the phone, so you dont need a landline for Sky,Sky+ or Sky HD TV
if you have a mobile broadband dongle and it OK for what you require then you can 'cease' your landline service, only drawbacks are small download limits on 'mobile' broadband and if people call you on your mobile from a landline then they will probably have a more expensive call than if they called you on a landline number,
Years ago when you got Sky TV if you got the 'interactive discount' you were supposed to keep the box connected to a landline for a
minimum of 12 months but i dont think thats the case these days

utilitybroker

Sky still say : Your Sky box(es) must be connected to a fixed telephone line for 12 months.

pollyanna24

Thanks everybody!!

We don't have Sky Multiroom, just have it in the living room.

We've had Sky since we moved into the house in April 2006, on the same contract I guess, so we are well out of the 12 months thing. Wahey, might as well disconnect it!

Robert2009

My daughter has sky+ and does not have a landline phone, she has no problems.
Rob