Do I need a landline using broadband?

Bambywamby

I am wondering if any of you wonderful techie folk knows...do I need a home telephone landline to use broadband?

I am looking at ways of cutting back and rarely use the house phone so I would love to get rid...but as a family we use the internet nearly 24/7 and have three pc's/lappys set upto on a router & modem system.
So I don't think a dongle thingy would suffice.

Any advice?

Thank you in advance Bam x x

bat999

Hi
I have Virgin Media broadband without a phone line.

macman

So the answer is: yes, you need either a VM cable service, or your existing BT ADSL line.
How else do you think you can receive the broadband signal?
All you can do is minimise your line rental (i.e. if BT, make sure you are on whole bill monthly DD and paper free billing).

JasX

unfortunately yes, if you didn't BT would be very short on cash and I'd have sold my shares in that bloated dinosaur months ago....

pcombo

You can still have broadband if you dont have incoming or outgoing calls etc. As long as u have a dial tone . And bt has to give you one now for 999 calls unless they completely disconnect it from the exchange.

macman

pcombo wrote: »

You can still have broadband if you dont have incoming or outgoing calls etc. As long as u have a dial tone . And bt has to give you one now for 999 calls unless they completely disconnect it from the exchange.

But you still have to pay line rental! And all BT line rental packages have some element of inclusive calls, so what would be the point of that?

Bambywamby

Thank you folks. x x

So I can't get rid of the phone...poo! Never mind...better start looking at selling the O/Hs prized motorbike to save cash.

savemoney

You need landline if you want adsl as mentioned

ukcarper

JasX wrote: »

unfortunately yes, if you didn't BT would be very short on cash and I'd have sold my shares in that bloated dinosaur months ago....

I thought virgin would provise broadband with out a phone if you live in an area that has been cabled. BT have other ways of making money and would still make a profit if they hived of the local network whose network do you think all those calls and broadband lines go through.

pcombo

macman wrote: »

But you still have to pay line rental! And all BT line rental packages have some element of inclusive calls, so what would be the point of that?

yes of course you do,but broadband would still work.

jaydeeuk1

This might be useful

http://blog.o2.co.uk/home/2010/01/o2-home-phone-in-march.html