No longer need a landline phone, help needed !

wort

I am afraid I don’t understand tech terms, so apologize if I don’t make sense here. 

My home phone is not working, rather than by a new one I am hoping to scrap it, as I don’t use it for calls at all. 

My dilemma is can I just unplug it ? At the moment it is plugged into the mains and the bt socket by an ADSL filter. Which also has the modem for my internet plugged in. 

If I unplug it does it affect the internet?

Do I need to let plusnet know I’ve unplugged it?

When I look for new internet package in Sept do I look for one without phone landline? 

Is there a reduction to be had by not using the phone ,just internet.
Thank you 

brewerdave

1. Internet won't be affected by not having phone connected. 
2.  PN don't need to be told - can't remember the last time I made a call on my phone . It's mainly for incoming calls.
3. & 4. If you stay on ADSL/FTTC (NOT full fibre) then there won't be any saving - they will still charge for the landline as it provides your b/band service.

molerat

Just unplug the phone, leave the filter in place with the modem plugged in as it currently is, unplugging the phone will not affect anything.

The phone comes with the package if still using the old copper wires, an internet only package is often more expensive.

Bigphil1474

OP, as above, if your internet comes through the phone line, then you won't make any savings by not using it. Worth noting that for people calling you it may be cheaper for some to ring the landline than a mobile number. Plus your landline will work in a power cut whereas your mobile won't if it needs charging. I've looked at ditching ours and couldn't find any savings so we kept it - you can pick up really cheap ADSL phones.

wort

Thank you both for your quick replies. Saves me £25 buying a new phone .  

iniltous

Its not strictly true these days than not having a phone service doesn’t have a cost saving , in some cases it can…
BT ( for example ) offer standalone broadband deals ( so although the same Openreach infrastructure is used as what is currently there for telephony and broadband ) but you don’t get a dial tone on the ‘line’ , so there is no point plugging a phone into the ‘line’ , that coukd be a master socket or the router phone port ( depending on how the service is currently delivered) ,  no incoming or outgoing calls are possible including 999 calls .
These broadband only plans are £5 cheaper than the same speed broadband that does have a phone service, but that is BT list price, many  negotiate better prices than list price

BUFF

Bigphil1474 said:

Plus your landline will work in a power cut whereas your mobile won't if it needs charging. 

If it's a DECT phone on the landline though the phone won't work in a powercut even though the line technically would ...

poppasmurf_bewdley

I have BT broadband, therfore I also have a BT landline.  I've not used it for at least 2 years.  It's been unplugged from the BT socket and the mains.

BT refuse to reduce my bill for taking out a broadband contract without a landline, so I'm keeping my number (preventing it from being issued to someone else), I've changed from ex-directory to listed so BT will have to include me in their printed directory even though anyone ringing the number will never get an answer, and BT will have to keep all the infrastructure intact to ensure my landline still works.

If BT would offer a £1 discount, I'd be willing to relinquish the line, but for nowt I'm keeping it.

Neil_Jones

poppasmurf_bewdley said:

I have BT broadband, therfore I also have a BT landline.  I've not used it for at least 2 years.  It's been unplugged from the BT socket and the mains.

BT refuse to reduce my bill for taking out a broadband contract without a landline, so I'm keeping my number (preventing it from being issued to someone else), I've changed from ex-directory to listed so BT will have to include me in their printed directory even though anyone ringing the number will never get an answer, and BT will have to keep all the infrastructure intact to ensure my landline still works.

If BT would offer a £1 discount, I'd be willing to relinquish the line, but for nowt I'm keeping it.

You do realise your broadband comes down that landline so you are technically using it even if it is isn't for phone calls?

That whole infrastructure is what brings you your broadband.  Why should you get the discount just because you don't make landline calls on it?

Your other protest methods, unique as they are, are immaterial to your argument.

poppasmurf_bewdley

Neil_Jones said:

poppasmurf_bewdley said:

I have BT broadband, therfore I also have a BT landline.  I've not used it for at least 2 years.  It's been unplugged from the BT socket and the mains.

BT refuse to reduce my bill for taking out a broadband contract without a landline, so I'm keeping my number (preventing it from being issued to someone else), I've changed from ex-directory to listed so BT will have to include me in their printed directory even though anyone ringing the number will never get an answer, and BT will have to keep all the infrastructure intact to ensure my landline still works.

If BT would offer a £1 discount, I'd be willing to relinquish the line, but for nowt I'm keeping it.

You do realise your broadband comes down that landline so you are technically using it even if it is isn't for phone calls?

That whole infrastructure is what brings you your broadband.  Why should you get the discount just because you don't make landline calls on it?

Your other protest methods, unique as they are, are immaterial to your argument.

Of course I know that. But in addition to the costs of supplying my broadband, it also costs BT extra to supply my landline.  They have to supply the infrastructure at the exchange to enable me to make a call, accept a call, connect a call, bill a call, talk to an operator, whilst also providing a printed telephone directory with my number in it. All that is cost over and above providing broadband. 

If BT are happy to keep providing me with those things without getting a single penny in call charges from me, then so be it.  But I'd still be happy to let them stop those costs, or load them onto someone else, by offering me a discount.  After all, I'm still paying less to BT now that I was 2 years ago. 

Neil_Jones

poppasmurf_bewdley said:

But in addition to the costs of supplying my broadband, it also costs BT extra to supply my landline.  They have to supply the infrastructure at the exchange to enable me to make a call, accept a call, connect a call, bill a call, talk to an operator, whilst also providing a printed telephone directory with my number in it. All that is cost over and above providing broadband.

Doesn't cost them anything extra at all, the phone system was built around voice calls and broadband was just bodged onto the whole thing. The infrastructure is the same for broadband and calls, so there is no saving (if there are any costs they'll be on the broadband side, not the landline side), and the whole operator thing is farmed out now anyway and not done by BT direct IIRC.