BT Line for Broadband

Mr_Hadz

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but...

I only need a BT Phone line for my broadband with Plusnet, however I hardly use my landline but pay about £11 per month for BT Option 1.

Is there any way around this or can I get it cheaper elsewhere? Even though I pay £25 per month to Plusnet by braodband actually costs me about £36!!

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Ian_W

It's still a phone line whether you use it for voice calls or not so to get BB you've got to rent one [or go cable] AFAIK. Don't Plusnet do line rental? Thought I read on their website they do? But anyway, suppliers charge much the same as BT for line rental - TalkTalk do I know - so you're probably not going to save a great deal renting from someone else unless it's part of calls inclusive deal, which doesn't really suit your needs.
Sorry that doesn't help very much.

Night-Owl_5

Hi, I have the same problem, we hardly ever use our BT phone, with broad band this is costing me about 45 per month. I am going to switch to cable, probably NTL but am doing some research after reading poor comments on this site

NTL broadband only is 15 per month HTH

parahandy

Similar here!! I pay £35 per month direct debit, but my actual service charges are about £92 per quarter between my BB (£26.99) and Together option 1 (£10.99). My phone charges in the last bill were £2.86 :rotfl:

So I'm looking at reducing that - my wife's a bit sceptical about hidden charges with other providers, but I've suggested we look at Sky and Telewest.

littleange

Night-Owl wrote:

NTL broadband only is 15 per month

NTL broadband starts at £18 a month

Took_Me_Away wrote:

Or you could get 10meg BB (£17.52) from ntl and get a VOIP style service. (personally i prefer a proper phone still ATM)

NTL 10meg is £35 a month

Took_Me_Away

littleange_com wrote:

NTL broadband starts at £18 a month



NTL 10meg is £35 a month

Not if you know what to do... and have a spare 20 minutes to phone them every 3 months

alared

NTL BB starts at £14-99 if you sign up before 31st Aug on a 12 month contract.
Can anyone explain more about it,would I need a modem?

littleange

alared wrote:

NTL BB starts at £14-99 if you sign up before 31st Aug on a 12 month contract.
Can anyone explain more about it,would I need a modem?

Ah didn't see the 512k option

littleange

You seem to get more for your money at telewest

espresso

alared wrote:

NTL BB starts at £14-99 if you sign up before 31st Aug on a 12 month contract.
Can anyone explain more about it,would I need a modem?

They supply a suitable cable modem which has both USB (spit) and Ethernet ports.

HTH

Took_Me_Away

littleange_com wrote:

You seem to get more for your money at telewest

yeah again when bartering for a good deal with them use that to your advantage, as they are the same company now.