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BT and putting another phone socket in
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Hi thewaltons.What do you need the line for?If its just for calls would it not be simpler to buy a cheap couple of dect phones?Have one plugged into the main socket and the other you can place wherever you want.0
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Hi thewaltons.What do you need the line for?If its just for calls would it not be simpler to buy a cheap couple of dect phones?Have one plugged into the main socket and the other you can place wherever you want.
We only have one main socket - at the moment we have a line trailing right across the house like a trip wire, causing several injuries a month!0 -
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TheWaltons wrote: »We only have one main socket - at the moment we have a line trailing right across the house like a trip wire, causing several injuries a month!Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0
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Like Heinz says,the additional phones only need an electrical socket and not a phone socket.0
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TheWaltons wrote: »Even at BT's rising costs.... I am sure they haven't gone up that much in a fortnight!
Thanks!
The full cost, including VAT is £166.33. £50 is the extension, the rest is the engineer call out charge.
Yeah, Im back at work. Yey. :PThe "Bloodlust" Clique - Morally equal to all. Member 20
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