Any do BB only?

harveybobbles

Looking to get BB installed in an old buiding I've just aquired. It's in a rural area. Don't need phone line or tv.. Just BB.

Currently have a "land line" with VodaDrone (One NET Express) so they come thru to my mobile anyway.

Anyone know any companies who do BB only?

VisionMan

Satellite BB. £65 a month minimum. Plus eqpt costs. Or mobile. But if its in the sticks, that may not work or have coverage.

NonGeographicalMan

The lousy completely in bed with the telcos UK telecoms regulator, otherwise known as OfCoN, failed to mandate the UK provision of so called Naked DSL where you only pay to maintain the phone line for broadband provision and do not have to pay for packages you do not need (eg especially Inclusive Weekend Calls which all the telcos seem to foist on their customers as supposed justification for the ever faster spiralling price of line rental not to mention ludicrous connection fees of 15p per call or more).

The net result of this is that we have some of the most expensive landline rental prices in the world that have gone up by well over 100% on average in the last 10 years compared to a much lower inflation rate of around 30% or so.

To try to avoid this ripoff you can try going down the route of using a mobile data provider but unless you live both in a 4G area and near the transmitter you just aren't going to find this a vaguely cost effective substitute for a modern FTTC broadband line.

Bottom line is that OfCon has won again in turning the UK in to the perfect hunting ground for the rich gravy train that flows behind all the major telcos operating in the UK market place. Other despicable practices like having to pay a year up front (Line Advance) that you can't get back even if you die or don't need your own phone line anymore, to get a reasonable line rental price, are further signs of the appalling !!!!! like practices by the telcos in the UK marketplace that anti consumer OfCoN sadly continues to permit.

See http://www.trefor.net/2010/02/23/naked-dsl-not-on-your-nellie-says-ofcom/ for more discussion on this.

macman

To state the obvious, you can't have ADSL or FTTC broadband with line rental.
Your only options are mobile broadband, VM cable, or a satellite system.

TadleyBaggie

macman wrote: »

To state the obvious, you can't have ADSL or FTTC broadband without line rental.
Your only options are mobile broadband, VM cable, or a satellite system.

Fixed that...

poppasmurf_bewdley

NonGeographicalMan wrote: »

The lousy completely in bed with the telcos UK telecoms regulator, otherwise known as OfCoN, failed to mandate the UK provision of so called Naked DSL where you only pay to maintain the phone line for broadband provision and do not have to pay for packages you do not need (eg especially Inclusive Weekend Calls which all the telcos seem to foist on their customers as supposed justification for the ever faster spiralling price of line rental not to mention ludicrous connection fees of 15p per call or more).

The net result of this is that we have some of the most expensive landline rental prices in the world that have gone up by well over 100% on average in the last 10 years compared to a much lower inflation rate of around 30% or so.

To try to avoid this ripoff you can try going down the route of using a mobile data provider but unless you live both in a 4G area and near the transmitter you just aren't going to find this a vaguely cost effective substitute for a modern FTTC broadband line.

Bottom line is that OfCon has won again in turning the UK in to the perfect hunting ground for the rich gravy train that flows behind all the major telcos operating in the UK market place. Other despicable practices like having to pay a year up front (Line Advance) that you can't get back even if you die or don't need your own phone line anymore, to get a reasonable line rental price, are further signs of the appalling !!!!! like practices by the telcos in the UK marketplace that anti consumer OfCoN sadly continues to permit.

See http://www.trefor.net/2010/02/23/naked-dsl-not-on-your-nellie-says-ofcom/ for more discussion on this.

Agree 100% with what you have written.

Ralph-y

how far is this building from your (or even others) property?

Ralph:cool:

NonGeographicalMan

Ralph-y wrote: »

how far is this building from your (or even others) property?

Why does that matter.

Are you suggesting the OP tries to encourage a mobile phone operator to install one of their towers on his land so that he gets a high speed 4G service?

kwikbreaks

More likely he's thinking of piggybacking WiFi

NonGeographicalMan

kwikbreaks wrote: »

More likely he's thinking of piggybacking WiFi

Which would be completely illegal unless he has neighbour's permission to access their network or is in range of a publicly available wifi point like FON or another more normal publicly accessible wifi hotspot in a cafe or shop or pub.

NonGeographicalMan

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

Agree 100% with what you have written.

Its good to hear that someone else understands what a lousy and totally anti competitive marketplace between the main cartel like operators Ofcom has allowed to grow up in the UK.

Ofcom's outrageous business model is that you can never afford to leave thanks to Line Advance and that once you are enslaved you can't shop around for cheaper calls when you have no call bundle covering them (eg weekday daytime) thanks to its crazy decision to also allow BT to block access to Indirect Access service providers like https://www.18185.co.uk

Also most customers are conned about the real cost of fixed line broadband by the telcos being able to hide the cost of line rental in small print while promoting much cheaper (than the cost of line rental) monthly copper broadband prices as their headline marketing figure.


Of course this will allow the large telcos who pay the very large salaries of Ofcom's staff to make vast and unerasonable profits from their now enslaved and captive customers in the UK telecoms marketplace

And doesn't all this also sound horribly like the way the equally useles OFGEM allows the large and greedy energy companies to treat thier UK customers..:eek::mad::mad::mad: