Thread: Cancelling home phone line
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Old 16-02-2012, 22:06   #20
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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Originally Posted by AndyCambs View Post
I enquired today about removing the phone line and just having broadband and television. The line loss would save me £13.90, but I would lose the bundle discount of £20. The viable alternative I looked at was Vonage which would cost £8.99 per month calls inclusive.
So remove the phone line and I have to make at least £15.09 to break even.
I've decided to go on Pay As You Go with Skype.
A 7 min call peak time to USA on Skype cost me 14p.
An 8 min call in Jan to the same number on VirginMedia cost me £2.16

So it's it worth ditching the line,but certainly worth looking at alternatives.
So if it costs more to ditch the land line, then why don't you just keep that for UK calls, and use Skype for international. That's what I do. I wouldn't use Skype all the time because the service isn't reliable enough.
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