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broadband/telephone

I am landlord with student properties and I wish to provide broadband access and a telephone. The problem is that I dont want to be saddled with a high phone bill with no one to pay it at the end of the contract. Can I, for example use BT with their free calls to landlines any time of day service and then bar all other types of calls. Would it then be possible for the tenants to access one of the call providers who put you through to other numbers with the use of a prefix number so that if they wanted to call a mobile they would pay for that directly without it going on my phone bill?? I would need good broadband access as some of my properties have 7 tennants - all students- presumably downloading for all they are worth, and ideally I would like to reduce the service to a bare minimum over the summer period to reduce costs when the properties are empty.

I am in a Telewest area and when I contacted them they said that they would not deal with me as a landlord and would only deal with the tennants.
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