Line Rental

angela365

Hi, Apologies if this has been asked before.

My broadband and land line are supplied by BT at present. I pay quarterly for both. I want to leave BT for a new provider solely for broadband. I'm not going to bother with a land line. My current broad band is fibre. So my question is..
Will I still have to pay line rental to BT (or to anyone else) if I move to another provider?

macman

How do you think your broadband signal gets to the home, if not via the landline? In most cases the service is fibre to the cabinet (FTTC). The last bit to your home is still delivered by good old-fashioned copper wire, unless you have an FTTP service.
All broadband providers will quote you a base price, which is for line rental and broadband together. Call packages are extra.
So, you will move your line rental along with the broadband.

matelodave

Previously line rental was charged separately, a bit like the standing charge, for gas, leccy and water but now it's usually rolled up into the cost for broadband. Historically BT provided the line and phone but ISPs provide the broadband - that all got changed a few years ago when ISPs started to provide phone services as well.

Nowadays the line is usually supplied by OpenReach who rent it to the ISPs, so its the ISP who charges for both the service and the line and often add in a few phone calls as well, but not always, in which case there willl be an extra charge for calls

Don't confuse line rental, which pays for the infrastructure (cable, exchanges, cabinets, maintenance etc) with the cost of phone calls. It sound as though you may have been with BT some time and are still on an older scheme.

angela365

So our bill for sure, separates broadband from line rental.

400ixl

Some providers are now supplying broadband only services that do not come with a landline service. What you can't do is have a landline service with BT and broadband with another Openreach supplier as far as I am aware unless you get a second line.

Are you trying to end with a phone line from BT and Broadband from another supplier, or just broadband with no phone line?

The_Fat_Controller

@angela365 exactly what "fibre" service do you have ?

Does your router/hub connect to the incoming phone line socket or via a dedicated real fibre cable completely separate from the phone ?

If it's all over the phone line then you are possibly on a very old legacy package that is costing you ££££ more than bring on one of the newer offerings.

What is the name of your package and what are you paying for each element ?

angela365

So when I look at deals, line rental is not mentioned in any of the deals. So from what I can understand from the above answers is that line rental is no longer a thing as it is already factored into the price. Is this correct?
So for instance at the moment I am looking at a deal that is price at £45 pcm, but says nothing about line rental, yet at present I pay that amount plus a line rental fee of £25pcm

angela365

The_Fat_Controller Definitely fibre with a separate phone line.

shiraz99

angela365 said:

So when I look at deals, line rental is not mentioned in any of the deals. So from what I can understand from the above answers is that line rental is no longer a thing as it is already factored into the price. Is this correct?
So for instance at the moment I am looking at a deal that is price at £45 pcm, but says nothing about line rental, yet at present I pay that amount plus a line rental fee of £25pcm

No it's still "a thing" but they must include the cost in the overall package price so there's only one simple price visible to the consumer.

400ixl

What is the name of the product you have with BT?

fiendishlyclever

I'm on BT fttp (150 Meg tariff) and they removed our copper line as part of the installation (we weren't using it before as we moved from Virgin) I don't pay line rental but a phone number is included (but you have to use the BT hub as it's a VoIP connection) so we effectively pay a flat fee. I don't use the phone as it's ridiculously expensive but that's BT's modus operandi...

I suspect this way of billing is the future and is more transparent