DannyB
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Registered: 6th Feb 08
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I phoned up yesterday and cancelled the direct debit for the line rental as I'm changing banks so I've opted to pay it another way when it's due every 3 months, they're going to charge me an extra £4 for this. So I pay £40 every 3 months just to have the BT line open for the internet, we don't use the housephone.
What are my other options, can I cancle it alltogether and go with a different/cheaper company? do sky offer anything like this as I'll throw the broadband in with my sky package and get it for cheaper, broadband is with AOL btw.
Any help appreciated.
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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I have SkyTalk which is a couple of quid cheaper a month than BT, same service basically.
Im in the same boat as you  Only have the telephone line because no one can be bothered to put in cable, otherwise id be all over VM
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DannyB
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So I don't need to pay BT essentially?
I can just do it all through Sky?
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dannymccann
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Yea, I have phone, TV, internet all through the 'BT' phoneline, but I pay Sky for everything.
Think its £38 a month for phone line, internet (up to 8mb, im not in an unbundles excchange so get the worse deal) and Sky+ with music channels
[Edited on 16-09-2009 by dannymccann]
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Conway563
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Registered: 7th Jun 06
Location: Yate, Bristol
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Yeah you can Danny.
BT are fucking idiots, told me my DD would come out every month on the same day then took it early and put me overdrawn. Currently arguing with them over the charges for it.
Sky rental is cheaper AFAIK and their top brodband package is then £10 a month
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DannyB
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Really, what arseholes?!
What is the package you have through Sky? is it unlimited use or is it capped?
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dannymccann
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Mines unlimited, they will tell you its £17 a month for internet, but they always do it for £10 as a "favour for you"
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Conway563
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I didn't go for sky as theironly unlimited package was the £10 one, can't remember what you get for the £5 but the free one was only 2gb IIRC
I went with O2 in the end as it's £7.30 a month for unlimited 8mb. Managed to get 4 months free and £50 cash back so works out at £8.40 for the years internet 
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Conway563
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
Mines unlimited, they will tell you its £17 a month for internet, but they always do it for £10 as a "favour for you"
Depends what area you're in and whether the exchange has been updated
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noshua
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Registered: 19th Nov 08
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Sky are brilliant, it is a truly unlimited service. All our services are through them.
If you can get virgin cable then you don't need to have a phone line.
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DannyB
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Cheers, although I don't think we have cable in this area at the minute.
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DannyB
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Well, Sky can't offer me an unlimited package for this area so I'll have to keep looking round, views on Tiscali?
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stubs
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I had this issue recently.. I can't get Virgin cable as they havent installed onto our estate (was built about 7 years ago now & still no sign of it)
I resent paying for a phone line when I have no want/need other than to provide the ability to have my O2 broadband. I think this country needs a re-think and services like this should be available without including the monopolies like BT.
BBC are another on my hate list... the fucking TV licence gets my back up no end.
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
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I too am in the same boat and BT have screwed me around no end. As for having to pay them... the logic is that essentially they paid for the infrastructure to allow you to have internet and they deserve some return on it
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DannyB
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My annoyance is with the extra £4 charge just for paying a different way, and the fact the line doesn't get used.
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Robbo
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in fairness though, and i do agree with you, thats the faukt of the banking system in making it so expensive to do something non-electronic
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
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Omg, don't even get me started with bt. 
I've given up and gone with sky, even they're been slow annoying tards.
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DannyB
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Did you get your broadband sorted in the end then, took ages didn't it?
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Whittie
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Still don't have it
I cracked on thursday, or wednesday and just ordered the fattest sky package possible. Although theres no sign of broadband still 
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DannyB
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 The sky woman said to me I could have up to 8gb with 40 gig usage per month, would that last you think? bearing in mind how much online COD I play
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