Roland Perry wrote:

I'd be expecting most of the calls from other landlines.

A generational thing I think. I have a landline but pretty much never use
it. As soon as I can get Internet access to my house without it (not a
cabled area) I will get rid of it.

Neil
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, (Neil Williams) wrote:

Roland Perry wrote:

I'd be expecting most of the calls from other landlines.

A generational thing I think. I have a landline but pretty much never use
it. As soon as I can get Internet access to my house without it (not a
cabled area) I will get rid of it.

Even if you were in a cabled area you'd have to pay for a Virgin Media
landline even if you didn't use it.

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Colin Rosenstiel

On 12/06/2012 16:07, wrote:

Even if you were in a cabled area you'd have to pay for a Virgin Media
landline even if you didn't use it.


Not necessarily true - we've got a "tinternet and telly" package from
Virgin

Ian

Ian Cunningham wrote:

Not necessarily true - we've got a "tinternet and telly" package from Virgin

We have such a package in the company flat in Switzerland as well.
Generally that sort of thing is offered on cable. It wouldn't take BT much
effort to offer it as well rather than the stupid idea that you have to pay
line rental and pay extra if you don't make any calls. The line would be
there, but it needn't be necessary to plug a phone into it, nor to be able
to call it.

Neil
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, (Neil Williams) wrote:

Ian Cunningham wrote:

Not necessarily true - we've got a "tinternet and telly" package
from Virgin

We have such a package in the company flat in Switzerland as well.
Generally that sort of thing is offered on cable. It wouldn't take BT
much effort to offer it as well rather than the stupid idea that you have
to pay line rental and pay extra if you don't make any calls. The line
would be there, but it needn't be necessary to plug a phone into it, nor
to be able to call it.

In this country you only have what you can agree with Virgin Media if you
want cable. It's a long time since I saw an offer that didn't have "plus £x
for a phone line" in the small print. As they will knock amounts off bills I
suspect you still pay for a landline even if you have a deal.

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:05:40 -0500
wrote:
In this country you only have what you can agree with Virgin Media if you
want cable. It's a long time since I saw an offer that didn't have "plus £x
for a phone line" in the small print. As they will knock amounts off bills I
suspect you still pay for a landline even if you have a deal.

We've got internet only with virgin. If they suddenly required us to pay
for a phone line too we dump them and go back to BT DSL.

B2003

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wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:05:40 -0500
wrote:
In this country you only have what you can agree with Virgin Media if you
want cable. It's a long time since I saw an offer that didn't have "plus
£x for a phone line" in the small print. As they will knock amounts off
bills I suspect you still pay for a landline even if you have a deal.

We've got internet only with virgin. If they suddenly required us to pay
for a phone line too we dump them and go back to BT DSL.

How much are you paying though? It could be the same as you would pay them
for internet plus phone.

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Colin Rosenstiel

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:07:51AM -0500, wrote:

Even if you were in a cabled area you'd have to pay for a Virgin Media
landline even if you didn't use it.

These days they'll sell you interweb without phone service.

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In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:07:51AM -0500,
wrote:

Even if you were in a cabled area you'd have to pay for a Virgin
Media landline even if you didn't use it.

These days they'll sell you interweb without phone service.

Evidence?

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Colin Rosenstiel

On 13/06/2012 17:32, wrote:

In o.uk,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:07:51AM -0500,
wrote:

Even if you were in a cabled area you'd have to pay for a Virgin
Media landline even if you didn't use it.

These days they'll sell you interweb without phone service.

Evidence?


VM broadband:
http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/compare-broadband/index.html

VM phone line:
http://store.virginmedia.com/phone/phone-fibre-optic/compare-fibre-optic/index.html

Solo broadband is cheaper than taking broadband & phone line - yes, VM
do discount the broadband if you take a phone line as well, but the
total cost is still more. As ever, they'd prefer it if you took a bundle
and so both price and market their services accordingly - disentangling
the costs can take a bit of work.

However I'm pretty sure that when VM started offering solo broadband,
the cost was equivalent to a broadband + phone line bundle.