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Giving up landline to save money
lilyethepink
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in Phones & TV
We are trying to cut costs, and dont use our landline enough to justify keeping it. It costs £16 month for line rental and payment charges. We have mobiles and are trialing the mobile modem with 3. Does anyone have any experience with this, also i will presumably lose my bt email address when i cancel, does it cost money to setup a new email address.
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Yes, you'll lose the BT email address.
You should be able to get an email address from 3.
I find not using the mobile and calling mobiles saves more money.It's PAC not PAC Code, it's MAC not MAC Code, it's PIN not PIN Number, it's ATM not ATM Machine, it's LCD not LCD Display, it's DVD not DVD disc... It's no one not noone, It's a lot not alot, It's got not gotten... Panini is the plural of panino - there is no S!!(OK my English isn't great, the sciences, maths & IT are my strong points!)0 -
No, googlemail.com addresses are free (as is their POP3, forwarding, storage and brilliant spam filtering).lilyethepink wrote: »..... does it cost money to setup a new email address.Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0 -
Off topic slightly but,
Dont some finance companies take a dim view of no home line?0 -
If you lose the landline then decide some time later that you want it connected again, BT is likely to charge you £125 to get it reconnected.0
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chilli_dog wrote: »Off topic slightly but,
Dont some finance companies take a dim view of no home line?
Sign up for a VoIP account with www.sipgate.co.uk and then set it up to always divert to voicemail.
Give that number out to companies and they are nonethewiser. To them it is a landline phone. It has a local phone number, you can choose the area you want.It's PAC not PAC Code, it's MAC not MAC Code, it's PIN not PIN Number, it's ATM not ATM Machine, it's LCD not LCD Display, it's DVD not DVD disc... It's no one not noone, It's a lot not alot, It's got not gotten... Panini is the plural of panino - there is no S!!(OK my English isn't great, the sciences, maths & IT are my strong points!)0 -
In an emergency situation, you may not be able to call 999 without a landline phone, especially if the emergency involves a power cut in your local area. But even if it doesn't, mobile networks can become overloaded and fail.
With normal landline calls emergency services are able to see the address you are calling from...could mean vital seconds in a crisis.0 -
chilli_dog wrote: »Off topic slightly but,
Dont some finance companies take a dim view of no home line?
Not really, i've never had a home phone line & always had a contract mobile phone (which if im honest does more wonders for any credit rating than a landline).0
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