Broadband question - do you pay line rental still?

Johnny Girth · 2 Aug 2006 at 18:23

As far as I can remember you used to have to pay BT for your line rental (phone line) and then a separate monthly fee to your broadband provider.

Is it still like this? If not, how does it work?

Also, any reccomendations for suppliers? My sister wants a basic phone line + any speed broadband with little useage, as cheap as possible ideally.

I suggested NTL but they owe her money after a long time of not paying so she hates them

dangermouse · 2 Aug 2006 at 19:07

As far as I know this is still the case with ADSL, you pay for the line rental and then for the ADSL broadband service on top. Unfortunately I'm on ntl cable and have been for a while so can't recommend any particular ADSL providers.

Minstadave · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:22

I looked into this and went for cable instead of ADSL because of the line rental you have to pay on ADSL.

tolien · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:25

Yes you've still got to pay (at least) the £11 a month for BT Option 1. No, that isn't going to change soon.

As for an ISP, Nildram PAYG?

Minstadave · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:30

You can get a bulldog line, the line rental is £10.50 I think, that 50p could make all the difference

tolien · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:39

Yup. You're forced to take Bulldog ADSL though, and you need to be able to get Bulldog LLU in the first place.

Johnny Girth · 3 Aug 2006 at 11:49

Bah, that's gay.

I thought with the recent unbundling this might be a thing of the past. Oh well...