Best phone deal with a BT line

eadg

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Jan 11, 2008, 9:59:16 AM1/11/08

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Any particular schemes available for calls from a BT landline? I ask
because my deal with Virgin Media (was an old NTL dial-up account) is
being closed down in March (cheap rate through the day, free through
the night) and the line rental is quite extortionate as it is without
adding call charges as well.

TIA!

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Jan 11, 2008, 12:54:16 PM1/11/08

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http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=1598074&postcount=3

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eadg

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Excellent, thanks very much!

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Peter Crosland

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Jan 11, 2008, 5:24:59 PM1/11/08

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Don't forget that although you may save a small amount in line rental,
getting faults fixed if the line is not rented from BT can be slow and
costly.

Peter Crosland

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Jan 11, 2008, 10:23:21 PM1/11/08

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Yeah, the link does say not to move line rental away from BT.

It is nice to see others highlight this.

eadg

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Jan 12, 2008, 6:39:16 AM1/12/08

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Oh, I've no intention of changing the line rental, expensive as it is
imo...stability, maintenance, phone book etc.
And rather than dismiss Virgin Media out of hand (my first instinct
when faced with no choice but to upgrade) I checked out their offer
and it seems not too bad: £10 month for 1st 12 months then £15
thereafter, with 8Mb unlimited broadband + virus software and evening
and weekend phone calls thrown in...compares more than favourably with
Tesco who I'm with atm. Anyone with experience of Virgin's BB service?

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SR

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Jan 12, 2008, 3:58:45 PM1/12/08

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This sounds like their ADSL broadband package and their CPS phone service
(line rental remains with BT).

With this set-up as line rental is still with BT you can use VM for the
inclusive calls and then BT for the calls they are cheaper on and 18185 for
other calls such as mobiles and international and daytime calls at 5p per
call to UK 01/02 numbers.

Only use VM for the inclusive calls as chargeable calls are the dearest
around.

If you have free caller display and / or free 1571 service you need to make
2 calls per month / 6 per quarter via BT (dial 1280 to pop the call back
over BT).

However Virgin ADSL at the moment for many users isn't that great, been like
this for quite a long time.

http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=virgin_adsl

Whatever you do, don't install their free PCGuard software, don't do it.
It's poor, it's useless and causes too many problems on your system, there
are better software out there that is free.

I'm on Virgin Media's Cable broadband service and am very happy with it,
Virgin Media also offer support in their own newsgroups using UK staff
during the hours of 08:00 - 22:00 everyday, however not for ADSL customers
or phone customers not on the cable network. You have access to these
newsgroups as a Virgin.net customer, just at the moment they don't offer
support to virgin.net via these.

eadg

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Jan 13, 2008, 6:35:27 AM1/13/08

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"{{{{{Welcome}}}}}" <bhx_spam@trapped__hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message

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Thanks again, the link was very helpful. I think I'll steer clear of
VM's ADSL service for the time being, nobody on the forums had a good
word to say about it.

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