Is it possible

bristleposh

To get a package of home broadband, tv and mobile phone, without a landline?
If so which company and what prices.

At the moment I have a package with virgin including phone which we rarely use apart from to answer questions about an accident that wasn't our fault, and two mobile phones through tesco. Is it possible to get the other stuff apart from a phone we rarely use.

jenniewb

As far as I know, you don't need to have a landline, but you do need a line to connect you up at all. (I say this as I know some of the new-builds have no line at all other than Virgin so cannot change from Virgin and they know it and raise the prices accordingly. My mothers recent bill neared £100. They knew she couldn't leave- there is no other line in other than Virgin's).


Ask anyway, but you do need a line, not a phone line as well but a connection to the phone exchange.

JJ_Egan

No landline / cable = no service for broadband .Something is needed for the data to travel along and that is why you pay rental for a data line not phone line .
Alternatives are Satellite or using your mobile phones network .

Vodafone i believe are supplying a no line rental product .

onomatopoeia99

jenniewb wrote: »

As far as I know, you don't need to have a landline, but you do need a line to connect you up at all. (I say this as I know some of the new-builds have no line at all other than Virgin so cannot change from Virgin and they know it and raise the prices accordingly. My mothers recent bill neared £100. They knew she couldn't leave- there is no other line in other than Virgin's).

Once the road is adopted by the council, she can order a BT line via one of the many providers that use the BT network (Sky, BT Internet, talk talk etc etc etc). BT has a universal service obligation as far as providing phone lines goes, unless your mum lives in Hull.

AndyPK

You can have BB and TV from Virgin only. But the price doesn't really go down much. It is worth asking about it though. (do you phrase it, that you want to leave, that is the Question)

Their LR and Call charges are one of the most expensive, so worth trying to get rid.

bristleposh

AndyPK wrote: »

You can have BB and TV from Virgin only. But the price doesn't really go down much. It is worth asking about it though. (do you phrase it, that you want to leave, that is the Question)

Their LR and Call charges are one of the most expensive, so worth trying to get rid.

I must have a word with them, I have a calls plan for just the weekend, but rarely use it, I was hoping that with their mobile phone contracts being not much more expensive than Tesco, I could ditch the tesco mobile phones and have virgin ones instead of the unused landline.

I will return to let you all know you if it isn't a sod off answer and I manage to cut my bills to the two companies.

AndyPK

Doubt it. I think they are almost separate companies

Virgin mobile is only 3G.

bristleposh

AndyPK wrote: »

Doubt it. I think they are almost separate companies

Virgin mobile is only 3G.

I must keep up, I've only just spotted this, I don't understand. I have two Tesco mobiles one for myself and one for the wife. I have seen virgin mobiles at a similar price, not sure of the quality of the phones but we only use them for calls, texts, what's ap and the occasional look at the Internet mainly on wifi. The landline phones we have are dormant from Monday to Friday and are rarely used at the weekend. Our mobile contracts allow us 250 minutes each which we rarely exceed.

Perhaps Sky will get their digits removed from their back passages and get their mobile network so I can switch to them and get the highly rated Sky Atlantic which I am unable to get with Virgin.

[Deleted User]

You could certainly cancel your landline with Virgin and just have Broadband and TV. The basic cost will be just the same, but you won't have to pay for your weekend plan any longer so there will be a (small) saving. Alternatively, cancel the weekend plan and just have the phone for incoming calls. Only you can determine how much you might save by doing this.

I don't think Sky are interested in becoming a mobile provider, the market is already saturated.

AndyPK

The weekend plan is free !

The_Groat_Counter

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

I don't think Sky are interested in becoming a mobile provider, the market is already saturated.

Sky signed an agreement with O2 some time ago to become an MVNO on their network. Sky are taking their time about it, but it's going to happen. They aren't going to leave the quad-play market to Virgin and BT.