Cancelling home phone line
16-02-2012, 00:54
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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Originally Posted by Peter_
In most cases having the phone line lowers the cost and saves having to find strange numbers that will not be answered outside of normal office hours as per New to cable above.
You have the phone line and only connect a handset if and when required so no one is tempted to use it.
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Having a phoneline NEVER lowers the total cost, its lower compared to the idividual cost.
EG 10Mb BB on its owns is £22.50 and the basic phone on its own is £13.90 total cost over £36 but bundle them together its £28.40. Its always cheaper to have 1 product on its own but adding another service induces a bundle discount. But still increases the total price.
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16-02-2012, 06:46
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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Having a phoneline NEVER lowers the total cost, its lower compared to the idividual cost.
EG 10Mb BB on its owns is £22.50 and the basic phone on its own is £13.90 total cost over £36 but bundle them together its £28.40. Its always cheaper to have 1 product on its own but adding another service induces a bundle discount. But still increases the total price.
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If you want to believe that then that is your prerogative but you are wrong.
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16-02-2012, 10:38
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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If you want to believe that then that is your prerogative but you are wrong.
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I have to agree with Peter. There are many package deals where it works out cheaper to have a phone line.
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16-02-2012, 19:28
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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.
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16-02-2012, 22:06
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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Originally Posted by AndyCambs
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.
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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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16-02-2012, 22:11
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
Of course if your broadband goes down you have no phone line and are unable to contact technical support for free, plus if you are on SKYPE and you call technical support over some issue the agent could remotely reboot your modem therefore causing the call to drop and just think you have hung up.
The are many pro's to keeping the phone line even if you do not use it as a house phone.
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16-02-2012, 23:08
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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Of course if your broadband goes down you have no phone line and are unable to contact technical support for free, plus if you are on SKYPE and you call technical support over some issue the agent could remotely reboot your modem therefore causing the call to drop and just think you have hung up.
The are many pro's to keeping the phone line even if you do not use it as a house phone.
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A couple of good points there Peter. After all you wouldn't want to be stuck waiting in a queue for technical support on your mobile.
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17-02-2012, 11:18
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I get £8 a month off two mobile phone packages through being on XL phone
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17-02-2012, 17:21
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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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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Just use the VM line for incoming calls, and calls to VM faults. I have a 3 mobile phone which has virtually limitless UK calls anyway.
VM UK domestic tariff on the M package is still relatively high cost overall.
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17-02-2012, 17:43
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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Just use the VM line for incoming calls, and calls to VM faults. I have a 3 mobile phone which has virtually limitless UK calls anyway.
VM UK domestic tariff on the M package is still relatively high cost overall.
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That is exactly how it can be used to your own advantage and it usually includes a discount.
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18-02-2012, 22:24
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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Originally Posted by Peter_
Apart from possibly getting your package at a lower the price the best reason to keep the phone line is because any call to Virgin Media will cost you nothing whereas using a BT line or a mobile will cost you money.
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ever heard of http://www.saynoto0870.com/ ?
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19-02-2012, 08:09
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Re: Cancelling home phone line
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Try using any of those numbers out of office hours say after 6pm, now if you get through to someone in office hours they are under no obligation to transfer you or they may not even have that facility and you will be told to try the correct numbers.
As in most cases having a phone line and even the basic tv package can lower your price significantly and you do not even have to use it.
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