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Originally Posted by Sirius
The phone is not my main product. Its the broadband i use the most and they make nearly nothing from me on the phone.
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I'm tight-fisted and know mobiles are a rip-off, so haven't had a contract mobile for many years. I do have a phone line but was part of a deal to keep me. Most of my calls are on the landline to other landlines as the people I know are tight-fisted too and don't like rip-off mobiles either and are fooled into paying stupid monthly payments for a mobile to get a few hundred 'free' minutes - we have sense. We make many a call in the evening and weekend - so getting the landline and evening and weekend calls package thrown in with the heavily discounted package makes great sense - I was VoIP only for 3 years or so. I also use VoIP for other calls and have a Vodafone mobile with 6 of us on the Vodafone family so we pay £1.17 each per month for 'free' calls between us at any time.
You see when you are bought up in a family that has always done all they can to spend the least they can, it does rub off on you, plus you have more money left for better things / better days.
So maybe it's a combination of poor Virgin Media landline phone costs and people fooled into paying silly money for contract mobiles that hasn't helped, saying that, the vast majority of people who dumped cable phone went back to a BT network landline.