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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Most of the telco equipment is already there, and has been for years. If someone isn't connected to it, then it's sat there costing money to maintain without any return. Even where a property hasn't had services before, I'd expect the cost of installing a master socket is pretty low in the grand scheme of network costs
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Perhaps, but it still takes extra time, nomatter how small. In my case it took the engineers an extra hour of going back and forth because of some technical problems connecting the line, even though I told them to leave it since I'd never use it anyway, they refused to leave until it was working. At the very least, it couldn't be done without an engineer visit while the broadband could easily have been a self-install. The cost of installing a phone line might be relatively small in the grand scheme of things, but so is flipping a couple of bits in computer memory to activate someone's service but they feel the need to levy a £49.95 "activation charge" to do it...
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Anyway, the standalone broadband costs on VM are cheaper than BB + Telco, just not the full difference, as the pricing will be done partly to encourage people to take more services.
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50Mb broadband on it's own: £26.50 per month + £49.95 activation charge = £367.95 over the year 50Mb broadband + phone: £10 per month, plus £12 for phone (with line rental saver) = £264 over the year, over £100 cheaper. And if you take cashback deals, e.g. Quidco, the difference is even bigger - since you get £30 cashback on the BB+Phone and only £20 on BB alone.
£103.95 more over the course of 12 months for standalone BB is just ridiculous.