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Old 02-03-2009, 22:42   #8
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Re: Keeping calls with Sky

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Originally Posted by Gadgie View Post
We are changing over to Sky talk soon, its £10 line rental (£5 for the first 3 months) then £5 for all calls 24/7.
Total of £15 a month, we were paying VM £18.50 a month, £11 rental & £7.50 for all calls 24/7.
We thought that a BT line was required, but Sky told us that it will be a Sky phone, so no BT line required.
What you have is effectively a "BT line", it's just been unbundled/rented* by Sky so you actually pay them the line rental instead of BT.


*EDIT - I had thought Sky Talk line rental was LLU (local loop unbundled) like their on-net broadband is (i.e. uses Sky equipment in the BT Exchange), but some Googling suggests they use (or at least did use) WLR (wholesale line rental) for landline provision - this is where Sky rent lines from BT in bulk & then re-rent them to the end user (similar to non-LLU ISPs re-selling BTWholesale broadband services).
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