Cheap line rental......no home phone

darmelsof

Hi, has anyone got any ideas about my dilemna. I am currently using Virgin media for broadband access and have a BT phone line for this purpose only.....we have no home phone. As BT is hiking it's charges yet again what are the options for me ? We do not live in an area which has cable and we do not subscribe to Sky.

Thanks.

Heinz

darmelsof wrote: »

Hi, has anyone got any ideas about my dilemna. I am currently using Virgin media for broadband access and have a BT phone line for this purpose only.....we have no home phone. As BT is hiking it's charges yet again what are the options for me ? We do not live in an area which has cable and we do not subscribe to Sky.

You lost me there.

You say you have a BT line on which you Virgin ADSL broadband is carried.

... but you say you have no home phone? That can only be because you don't have one plugged in.

If you are trying to reduce the cost of the landline (currently £13.60/month but rising by 30p to £13.90 at the end of next month), there are numerous other (mostly cheaper) providers but you'd have to check that they'd carry another provider's broadband (some only carry their own flavour).

However, cheaper can mean poorer service - have a read through this forum and you'll see horror stories about Primus, Talk Talk, Orange, O2, BT et al.

In any case, what are you paying for your broadband? If I'm reading their website correctly, their cheapest package is £21/month - and that's very expensive in the current market.

It's likely you could make a considerable saving on that and not move from BT (BT has to carry all flavours).

OldGreyFox

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/home-phone-calls

darmelsof

Thanks for your reply.
Sorry if it sounded confusing......we have a BT line but we use mobile phones instead of a fixed landline phone.

Our Virgin broadband cost is £15 per month which is cheap enough and very reliable. It is a cheaper landline cost which we are seeking as broadband is the only thing it is used for.

I will check out the things you have flagged up in the forums.

Thanks

macman

Do you pay your llne rental to BT or to Virgin National?
If the former, you have some element of bundled calls anyway, (Weekend, or Evening and Weekend) so why not use them?

steveE2

You won't be able to switch your line rental elsewhere and still have your broadband with VN.
Of course you can,excluding (VM Cable)Post Office IDNET,Phone Co-op amd others all recognised as BT lines(Wholesale) and can have any Broadband supplier on them.
I'm with Sky LLU for broadband and my line rental/calls with IDNET

macman

Apologies, I misread the OP's reply, now edited.

darmelsof

Our line rental is paid to BT......currently £40.84 ! In my old house I had Virgin broadband and line rental from Sky as I was a customer back then......that was only £11 a month. Not sure if I could go with them again if I am not a Sky tv subscriber ?

Heinz

darmelsof wrote: »

Our Virgin broadband cost is £15 per month which is cheap enough and very reliable.

I'd say that's expensive - about double what you could be paying elsewhere.

macman

darmelsof wrote: »

Our line rental is paid to BT......currently £40.84 ! In my old house I had Virgin broadband and line rental from Sky as I was a customer back then......that was only £11 a month. Not sure if I could go with them again if I am not a Sky tv subscriber ?

You no longer need a Sky TV sub to get Sky broadband. but not worth it unless you are on a Sky LLU exchange.