moving home and getting primus

edwardmluk

I've just moved into a property. I had BT line rental at my previous property at £13 a month or whatever it is and I still have 3 months of that contract left. I want to have the Primus line rental at my new place. If I use BT to move house then they make me have another 12 months with BT, not ideal. How do I go about doing this?

Can I ring up BT and get them to activate the line at the new property without signing up for 12 month line rental? The BT box there is undamaged and so there shouldn't be that £150 activation fee. When they activate the line and no line rental has been added, does that give me the phone number to use to start the primus line rental through homephonechoices (which insisits on me providing a phone number)?

If I am going to have 2 separate phone lines, is it possible to set the line at the old property to only accept incoming calls so that any new tenants can't use my phone line? Would this reduce the cost per month too?

Thanks

Ed

Heinz

No. New property = new 12 month minimum contract.

You can't just get the line 'activated' - the line rental provider does that and then you pay them monthly, quarterly or annually.

Why don't you just buy yourself out of the exisiting BT contract and start again at the new place? I'd do that quickly - before the new tenants finds your old line works.

edwardmluk

Well I managed to get BT to knock £3 off the monthly cost (which is something I suppose). And then O2 just halved the broadband for me and still kept me on the non-traffic shaped package. I can’t really complain at unlimited broadband and line rental for under £15.

Thanks for the words Heinz.