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cancelling my home phone connection but keeping Sky

moneymaz
moneymaz Posts: 1 Newbie
in Phones & TV
Hi there,

Does anyone know if it is possible to cancel my home phone line but keep the line so that i can continue to have Sky Plus?
I don't use my home phone anymore, but am having to still pay for the line rental because of Sky Plus.
Does anyone know a way of getting around this? i'm even willing to change phone providers if necessary

Thanks

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  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    Welcome to the MSE forums moneymaz.

    Why do you need a telephone line for a satellite TV service?
    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.
  • deklan99
    deklan99 Posts: 637 Forumite
    Sky's Ts & Cs say "Free Sky/Sky+/Sky HD box must be connected to a fixed telephone line for 12 months" so beyond that no requirement for landline.
    “I look like Spiderman at a funeral”~ Karl Pilkington
  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    deklan99 wrote: »
    Sky's Ts & Cs say "Free Sky/Sky+/Sky HD box must be connected to a fixed telephone line for 12 months" so beyond that no requirement for landline.
    In fact, unless you have Multiroom, the 12 months 'requirement' is unenforced.
    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.
  • deklan99
    deklan99 Posts: 637 Forumite
    True but I'm a wimp and kept the plug in the full 12 months.
    “I look like Spiderman at a funeral”~ Karl Pilkington
  • billsavings
    billsavings Posts: 2,015 Forumite
    Sky will in fact provide a TV Service ( Non Multiroom ) without a phone line if you pay a £25 fee.
  • BexTech
    BexTech Posts: 4,772 Forumite
    billsavings wrote: »
    Sky will in fact provide a TV Service ( Non Multiroom ) without a phone line if you pay a £25 fee.

    That's for new customers, who don't have a phone line to begin with.

    If the OP doesn't have multi-room then can simply not bother with the phone line. Sky have never since 1 Oct 1998 policed the phone line on non-multi-room set-ups.

    OP if you don't have multi-room then whatever box you have you have no worries about the phone line, get rid if you wish, you are only required to have it connected for 12 months and then Sky never police it during those 12 months if you don't have multi-room.
    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!)
  • mitchaa
    mitchaa Posts: 4,487 Forumite
    moneymaz wrote: »
    Hi there,

    Does anyone know if it is possible to cancel my home phone line but keep the line so that i can continue to have Sky Plus?
    I don't use my home phone anymore, but am having to still pay for the line rental because of Sky Plus.
    Does anyone know a way of getting around this? i'm even willing to change phone providers if necessary

    Thanks

    The question is, how do you connect to the internet;)
  • mymatebob
    mymatebob Posts: 2,199 Forumite
    mitchaa wrote: »
    The question is, how do you connect to the internet;)

    Mobile broadband?
    Somewhere else with free Wi-fi?
  • BexTech
    BexTech Posts: 4,772 Forumite
    mymatebob wrote: »
    Mobile broadband?
    Somewhere else with free Wi-fi?

    Cable broadband?
    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!)
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