Fibre without line rental?
 

Hi, can I get a fibre connection but with no line rental charges?

I don't want a phone, nor do we want the TV, we want to cancel our big kahuna once the contract is up and just have the 152mb fibre connection so we can use a tv dongle & stream our media.

What options do we have with VM?

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http://store.virginmedia.com/broadba...u_click_bbonly

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Cheers - just the ticket (I couldn't find it when I looked).

Mind you, it's 3/4 of the price I pay for the big kahuna!
methinks I'll also look elsewhere.

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All other providers will require line rental.

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Its of course cheaper to take more than one service.

Also Ben is correct any other provider will reuire line rental of around £16,99 with ADSL/Fibre.

Why do you need 152Mb for streaming?

50Mb or 100Mb will easily do that also and remember speeds are doubling later this year.

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Guess it depends on how many connected devices he has at home and what they are being used for.

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Even then, 50Mbps is enough for at least 4 full-HD streams or two 4K's.

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Good point.

Sigh ... wish I had the first hand experience of that ... we're still stuck with a copper line that is only now giving us (almost) 3Mb, after months of work by Openreach tracking down dodgy joints in our very long line.

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Depends if he wants the upstream.

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Location, location, location.

Not all that long ago I was getting 1.3Mb in a suburb of the UK's 3rd city.

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Indeed.

Our exchange is actually due for subsidised installation of Infinity fibre late next year, but given that we are connected direct to the exchange via 8km of copper it's going to be precious little use to us. Only a few premises within the village where the exchange is located are likely to benefit.

I'm hoping they may at least disconnect our line from the exchange and terminate it at a fibre cabinet in the centre of the village instead - that will reduce our line length by at least a km, maybe a little more.</offtopic>

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My manager's living in the middle of nowhere in rural Scotland and was surprised to get FTTC recently too. New cabs being subsidised in a lot of EO places too.

Possibly. There's a database somewhere that has detailed per-line information including whether or not a BDUK-subsidized EO line rerouting/conversion is planned. Ignition's quoted information from it before so he may have access. I was lucky enough to have my ~2km line direct to the exchange rerouted to a cab 50m away.

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Sadly it wouldn't help you in any way.

Your line wouldn't be terminated at that cabinet it would go on to the exchange unless you ordered FTTC.

If you ordered FTTC your order would be rejected as you are too far from the cabinet to get a signal over that technology.

If Openreach deployed ADSL / ADSL 2 from cabinet it wouldn't help you either. They have to do things with power masks to avoid drowning out broadband from the exchange.

You wouldn't even get a land line now if your property were built today. If you are getting over 2Mb you won't be a priority, that's the lower limit under the universal service commitment. Your only option for faster is probably satellite.

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What happened to the universal service obligation?

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Cheers - having had a think about it yes 50mb may be OK - its going through a switch to 3 thee (adult) kids rooms and they only get 50mb speeds, I'm the only one that's actually fully wired into the router and get 152mb lol

Our plan is to ditch all services except fibre and stream with a dongle all tv services apart from freeview.

Given what just fibre costs IMO doing this may not save us as much as we think.

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I can understand why they would refuse to put a line in to a new build 8km from anywhere, but we do have neighbours, and all the developable land around here is within about 200 metres of the 50-pair cable that runs back to the exchange.

I did look at satellite, but usage caps, high latency and high monthly costs are putting me off. To be honest, so long as our 2Mb is stable - and it is, for now - its fast enough for our needs.

Oddly enough our community council newsletter dropped through the door yesterday. They are aware that most people around here are on EO lines and that a little extra campaigning may be required in order to make the most of the Infinity work scheduled for the exchange late next year.

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£30.25 for 50MB, when did that go up?
It was £28 last time I looked, my son pays £26.50 for his.

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I have seen £5 + £16 line rental being offered.
So I'll be having a chat with them when I leave (tv services) which I certainly will be doing come feb.

This amazon fire with kodi on is excellent ;)

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pricing and terms have been changed on that uswitch deal. details here > http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...b-10-16-a.html

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I pay £25 for my 152mbits :erm:

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£25 for only BB ?

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not standalone, we have got phone and tv as well so cumulatively it all comes to a lot more. We went for it a few years ago when 100mbits first came out because they specifically advertised the package as 100mbits (XXL) as only being £25 when taken with bla bla. Obviously there have been a few £1.75 price increases (or whatever it is) on the package since then but it is there or there abouts.

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We were on £30 for 100meg (now 152meg) however the price went up £10 within the space of two months. So i guess we're basically paying the standard price according to the Virgin website again.

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I downgraded from Big Kahuna and 152 mb BB with phone with evening / weekend calls to basic phone and 50mb BB.
I am now paying £19-50 a month for this and only use the phone at the weekends. They wanted £25 for 50 mb BB only. Was cheaper to take the phone as well.

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