£1500 to install a BT Line???
Hi everyone.
I happened upon this site by mistake but maybe some kind person on here can help me out. I need to get a phone installed in a holiday home at Evesham. It's my friend's place but I spend a lot of time there so I need the phone so my family can get hold of me and to plug the computer in for internet access. Nothing fancy, don't need broadband - just a bog-standard phone line. Ordered it from BT and they quoted £125. Then today they've told me it's gonna cost another £1500 cos there's never been a phone there before. Well, the holiday home is about 30 yards from a house where there's a phone so I queried the price - and was told that's the price based on the quote they got from Openreach to dig a trench and lay the cable - take it or leave it! Now I can't possibly afford 1500 quid so does anyone have any suggestions? I did a search on Cable & Wireless cos they're supposed to be a competitor of Openreach but didn't come up with anything. There's no cable supply anywhere near so Telewest etc. are not an option. Do Sky/Virgin/TalkTalk etc need a BT Line? Satellite phone?? I'm totally lost - don't even understand how phone lines work - just know I've gotta get the phone on somehow and I don't even know where to start. Can anyone help please?
Cheers Lin
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