[Gllug] Combined phone and broadband in the Barnet Area

[Caroline Ford]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 21:13 +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, John Winters wrote:
> 
> > A trick I used to use in the days I moved house more often was always to
> > request a re-connection rather than an installation.  Unless it's a new
> > build house (not likely in the bracket I was working in) there's almost
> > certain to be some sort of phone wiring already in the building.  Make
> > sure there's a phone (wire one in yourself if necessary) and then
> > request a re-connection.  Once the job had been entered into the system
> > as a re-connection (at a much smaller charge) it didn't seem to matter
> > how much work they had to do - the price didn't go up.  I don't know
> > whether it would still work these days.
> 
> That wont work for those who are getting a BT line after having had a line 
> provided by an LLU provider in the past (or where the previous occupent 
> had that) as BT do actually have to get an engineer to do some work beyond 
> typing a command on a keyboard.
> 

So is it possible to get broadband and a phone line from a provider
other than BT? I got the impression that all broadband required a phone
line from BT, even if it was LUU.

I'd love to find a better supplier of line rental than BT as I just want
a line for broadband and hate having to pay £10 a month for the
privilege. I appreciate that the line rental has to be paid for somehow
but even paying the same company for both would be preferable to having
to deal with bl**dy BT.

Caroline

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