Advice please want to use home line just for broadband

moggywoman

Hello,

Newbie user of the forums and would appreciate some advice from you wonderful people before I go and possibly do something disasterous.

I am a low user of both my home phone and mobile but recently (mainly because I wanted the internet on the move) bought an iphone on the Tesco contract at £20 a month.

I currently also have a Talk Talk home phone package with broadband which averages out at about £23 a month. I was thinking of getting rid of the home phone and just directing everyone to my mobile, thinking that it was wasteful to pay twice when I am such a low user of the phone. However I did want to keep home broadband and I also have Sky HD.

I was thinking of going to Plus Net at the £5.99 a month deal.

The question I wanted to ask was if I go to Plusnet who do I pay the line rental costs to? I presume that I will still have to pay line rental? Plus will this effect the line to the Sky HD box and if so will Sky kick up a fuss about it? Any other advice you can give me would also be appreciated.

Thanks

Jo

spike7451

Why not check here:
https://www.samknows.com
to see whose broadband your phoneline can support &,if O2 are on there,you can get both O2 home phone & base broadband for around £17 a month if you have a O2 mobile phone.

jem16

moggywoman wrote: »

I was thinking of going to Plus Net at the £5.99 a month deal.

To move to PlusNet you will have to move from TalkTalk back to BT which could involve a reconnection fee.

The question I wanted to ask was if I go to Plusnet who do I pay the line rental costs to?

BT.

I presume that I will still have to pay line rental?

Yes you can't havea phone line without paying someone line rental.

Plus will this effect the line to the Sky HD box and if so will Sky kick up a fuss about it? Any other advice you can give me would also be appreciated.

It won't affect that. It doesn't matter to Sky who you have your phone with.

What exchange are you on? What LLU operators are available?

Check SamKnows before nayone could advise;

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php

jem16

spike7451 wrote: »

o see whose broadband your phoneline can support &,if O2 are on there,you can get both O2 home phone & base broadband for around £17 a month if you have a O2 mobile phone.

O2 Home phone still has no start up date and the OP would still need a BT line.

macman

OP is on a TT phone package, this does not mean the line is necessarily LLU'd to TT. If not they can go straight to Plusnet and use their line rental (£11.25).
OP needs to check if it is LLU or not.

moggywoman

Thanks for all your replies. Pretty much as I thought then, I would get a little bit of a saving but not much. I did look at Samknows and I am in an area covered by O2 and Plusnet. However I may look into obtaining a dongle instead for the home computer on a pay as you go basis.

mk-donald

If you can get o2 home broadband LLU (not o2 Access!) then consider either Be Value (upto 8Mbps modem synch, but data capped at 40GB/month from 1/7) at £7.50/m less cashback = just £50/1styear (£4.17/m) from a provider you will find precious few complaints about; or if you can cope with getting an o2 PAYG SIM AND would use the £40 you'd need to top-up the mobile with and would use the £50 mobile credit o2 will give you (ie £94+ of mobile phone usage to use!) you'd end up after using that £94+ of phone credit being £10 IN POCKET (ie true MSE territory!) over that first year on o2 Standard, an upto 8Mbps modem synch, data uncapped service with 24x7 UK support and some other perks, from another champion ISP (been with them 2.4 years myself and remain very impressed).

MKD