Rental house: No phone line

opal123

Hi Can anybody offer any advice please... I have just moved into a rental property, possibly just for 6 months. BT helpfully (!) cannot tell me if the reconnection will be simple or not so I might have to pay the full £125.
I also need broadband so if anyone knows the best value way to do this i'd be grateful for any advice
Thanks

McKneff

I thought, and i'm quite happy to be corrected, that a contract with BT was for a minimum of 12/18 months, be careful to read the small pring.

Could you do mobile broadband for 6 months.

opal123

Yes the minimum is 12 months and unfortunately mobile phone reception is rather lacking in the area!! Damm BT!!!

JaRocks28

I know Madasafish do a 30day rolling contract for a phoneline (and their prices are about to be increased to £11.25 per month, inline with BT). You have to pay a line set up cost of £49.99 which is instead of BTs £122.50. And Plusnet offer a 30day contract on broadband, depending on your usage depends on your pricing. Hope this helped.


Try to avoid BT, i have had a few problems with them and a new line installation. I was chatting to someone via their live chat who sent me a link to get the phoneline installed free (which i have evidence of, and can provide them) and they sent a letter today to say it would be a line installation cost of £122.50, just got off the phone to them it seems that the offer isnt valid, and never has been so I cannot have it which is great as i have just had a credit search done against me and i didnt get anything out of it!! So before i re-apply anywhere else i will wait 3 months otherwise my credit rating will mess up!

Mark_In_Hampshire

Worth checking all the networks; we live in a rural area 1.9 miles from the phone exchange. We used to have ADSL which ran at 1.7Mb downstream.

Vodafone barely gets a signal at all. However if you pop a Three 3G modem in the loft space it gets 5 bars and downloads at an average of about 2.5Mbps and up at 376kbps these days.

So that's what we have; we don't even need the landline. If you're in an out of the way area: as someone who used to need a fast connection at home 24/7 and spent 10 years moving between cabled areas to guarantee broadband, as the one time we went to a non cabled area the phone line was too long to support DSL - I'd check very carefully that the phone line will indeed be able to support a DSL signal (you will never get a guarantee, but you can work out the distance, use the checker etc) before paying any sums.