New flat.. new BB. .advice.

nintenjo · 27 Jul 2007 at 10:13

I am just about to move into a Brand new flat.. It currently has a telephone socket in the wall so i assume it goes to the local exchange however there is no dial tone..

Now i do not really want a land line.. But can i get ADSL without paying BT line rental? Do any BB packages offer line rental as part of the package?

Virgin / Telewest are my other alternative, but i get the impression ill be waiting weeks / weeks for them to connect it .. and i only want a 6 month contract which virgin dont offer.

Its all very annoying.. anyone got any good suggestions?

Im looking for about 2-3mb BB.. I have been offered orage free with my mobile phone, but requires BT line rental. Grrr :mad:

tolien · 27 Jul 2007 at 10:21

nintenjo said:
But can i get ADSL without paying BT line rental?

No.

Do any BB packages offer line rental as part of the package?

A few, but most of the ISPs offering both are crap (Pipex/Tiscali, TalkTalk). It isn't free though - it's just factored into the price.
Bear in mind most of the "free" or "free activation" deals are at a longer contract than 6 months (typically 12 months).

nintenjo · 27 Jul 2007 at 13:37

Hmm that sucks.

Well might have to get a BT line i guess

Trouble is its a brand new house and even the postcode dosnt seem to get recognised in most places.

Immsy · 27 Jul 2007 at 16:05

You will have to pay 124.99 to get it connected then if its a new build and an engineer is required to reconnect it (highly likely as no dial tone)

Phemo · 27 Jul 2007 at 16:54

Immsy said:
You will have to pay 124.99 to get it connected then if its a new build and an engineer is required to reconnect it (highly likely as no dial tone)

Doubt it. You have to pay £125 for installation of a new line - seeing as he already has a line there it shouldn't cost that. When I moved into my new house the phone line was totally dead until I called up to get it activated. It was working within 2 hours with no installation/enable charges.

tolien · 27 Jul 2007 at 19:59

If I remember correctly, the BT line comes with a 12 month minimum term too.

Phemo · 27 Jul 2007 at 20:16

A newly installed line has a 12 month minimum contract but I'm quite (not 100%) certain that when I got my existing line re-activated, I only had a 3 month contract period.

Immsy · 27 Jul 2007 at 22:18

Phemo said:
A newly installed line has a 12 month minimum contract but I'm quite (not 100%) certain that when I got my existing line re-activated, I only had a 3 month contract period.

Not the case anymore after the 1st May. Everyone has 12 months contract now, and every engineer visit to connect a line now has a charge now since 1st July.

MeatLoaf · 28 Jul 2007 at 10:27

Youre in the same boat as me mate. My new address has a line but it needs activating inorder for me to take my talktalk with me. And to activate it means signing a 12 month contract with BT just so talktalk can take it over.

So id end up paying 30 quid a month at least to talktalk plus 12 quid to BT.

I just ended up signing up with Virgin Media. £30 quid for phone/tv and 2mb broadband.

mame · 28 Jul 2007 at 10:56

I moved into a flat last year, no phone line and i didn't really want one. Had NTL/virgin installed. Free installation. took about a week i think. 12 month contract @£18/month but they are doing it for £10/month for the first year now. Seems the most simple option. If the worst happend and you moved out after 6months i suppose you would just have to pay the remaining £60 off.

Oh thats just for broadband BTW. I still dont have/want a phone.

nintenjo · 30 Jul 2007 at 10:08

Ok ..well it looks like Virgin is off the cards at least for cable, as my new flat is on a new road which dosnt have cable fitted currently

So the only option is ADSL..

So looks like its going to have to be the cheapest line rental package from BT. And then ill get a decent ADSL connection for a 12month contract.