New tenants require internet

kmmr

Are you still living in the property?

anselld

If you are in a Virgin area they will do Broadband for £20 / month, £30 connection charge.

Most other ISPs need an active phone line as far as I am aware.

kopper

kmmr wrote: »

Are you still living in the property?

Yup still living in the property for a couple of days a week so i had no need for a phone line/internet. I'm only renting out the spare room.

kmmr

That makes a bit more sense. So I guess you include bills in the rent.

Just tell them the cost, and if you have to put in a phone line, then put the phone in their name. They may be concerned then about your use of the phone then!

Or you could pay for it yourself, and get them to pay for phone calls. Just get monthly itemized bills. To be honest if you are renting out a spare room it would be a good idea to get broadband, as most people will want it.

PasturesNew

kopper wrote: »

Yup still living in the property for a couple of days a week so i had no need for a phone line/internet. I'm only renting out the spare room.

Ah, just lodgers then. Well, that's a different ball game. If they want internet they can still pay for it ... or, you can have the line put in anyway because future lodgers will expect it. You need to investigate locking down a phoneline: methods, companies, etc.

e.g. if you have the physical phone line in your room, you could run a wireless router to provide broadband around the house ... and you can stop any phone calls being made from the phone that start with certain codes. It needs looking at really ... or suggest they get a USB stick broadband service, but they can be unreliable, slow, limited.

Or, just let them pay for a line to be installed in their room in their name.

kopper

Plusnet's free reconnection is interesting. Do I need to get anything from BT in order to connect via Plusnet? I dont know what the previous tel number of the flat was.

Emmzi

or they could buy themselves a dongle.

Fire_Fox

kopper wrote: »

Plusnet's free reconnection is interesting. Do I need to get anything from BT in order to connect via Plusnet? I dont know what the previous tel number of the flat was.

Have you got a dialling tone? If so there is a number you can ring and a bionic woman tells you what number you are calling from! :T If you have no dialling tone the line has been physically disconnected at the exchange and the number reused, in which case you will probably have to pay for reconnection. If that is the case I would suggest your lodger uses a mobile dongle as otherwise you as resident landlord are going to get shafted with a twelve or even eighteen month contract. If you do use PlusNet there is £38 cashback to be had if you sign up online - on PlusNet's website ('my account') you can set the maximum bill for broadband and landline which might be wise if you aren't ever-present.

ETA: 17070 is the number to ring for the bionic woman!

Dr.Shoe_2

What I would do is get the line installed but then put call barring on for all calls. A small monthy charge but at least no big bills.

You could get an "unlimited calls" package and bar everything else that would not be covered such as premium rate calls, mobile calls and, unless you're with BT, 0845 and 0870 numbers.

System

What about Virgin? We have that, but only the internet (though i havn't actually tried looking for a phoneline)