Cable Broadband providers?

Mellotron

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Jul 2, 2008

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Brighton

• Sep 9, 2013

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I DON'T want line rental. I have no use for a landline. According to uSwitch, if you go for Cable/Fibre Optic Broadband you don't need a landline and therefore don't have to pay line rental.

Anyone know any good Cable providers? Tried Virgin and they can't offer it in my area, and Sky demand that you have a Sky line installed, and therefore, line rental.

 

nail-Z

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Jul 10, 2003

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North Somerset

• Sep 9, 2013

• #2

Does it need to be cable?

You can get some pretty decent mobile broadband deals these days. Assuming you get a strong enough signal and an all you can eat data allowance.

 

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Very Blue Tits

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Jan 2, 2013

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• Sep 9, 2013

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It might be worth checking out samknows.com (http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search) in the first instance to see who is in your local exchange to see who else could possibly supply cable.

Unfortunately, for most domestic installations they will, in most cases, oblige you to sign up for line rental. That's because "cable" is actually still delivered by a metallic based line (unless you are fortunate enough to live in an area which has cable to the premise), which is owned by BT and therefore the providers still have to rent this from BT Openreach.

 

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ozseagull

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Jun 27, 2013

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• Sep 9, 2013

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Virgin Media are definitely the best.

My advice would be to move house to a Virgin catchment area and get it installed.

 

Superphil

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Jul 7, 2003

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• Sep 9, 2013

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If you do find an option where "BT Line Rental" is not required, will there will be a "Cable Line Rental" instead? Why not get just regular broadband, with the most suitable service service in your area?

 

beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003

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• Sep 9, 2013

• #6

dont think there are any pure cable providers other than Virgin. everyone else uses the old copper BT lines for the final leg.

 

Mellotron

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Jul 2, 2008

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Brighton

• Sep 9, 2013

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beorhthelm said:

dont think there are any pure cable providers other than Virgin. everyone else uses the old copper BT lines for the final leg.

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Think I will try speaking to Virgin and see if there's any way they'll do it.

 

Kumquat

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Mar 2, 2009

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ozseagull said:

Virgin Media are definitely the best.

My advice would be to move house to a Virgin catchment area and get it installed.

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That was funny.

 

we-8-brighton

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Feb 5, 2011

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• Sep 9, 2013

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Sky and talk talk offer fibre optic broadband but I'm not sure if they use adsl to deliver (which would dismiss the fibre optic thing and still mean line rental) Virgin are the only ones to do fibre optic but I'm pretty sure even with broadband only that some rental charge still applies, could be wrong though.

 

Bold Seagull

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Mar 18, 2010

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• Sep 9, 2013

• #10

Mellotron said:

I DON'T want line rental. I have no use for a landline. According to uSwitch, if you go for Cable/Fibre Optic Broadband you don't need a landline and therefore don't have to pay line rental.

Anyone know any good Cable providers? Tried Virgin and they can't offer it in my area, and Sky demand that you have a Sky line installed, and therefore, line rental.

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I think you might need to accept that regardless of whether you have a telephone line or not, if there is a cable/line bringing Broadband to your home, you're going to pay a rental for it one way or another.

 

Mellotron

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Jul 2, 2008

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Brighton

• Sep 9, 2013

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Bold Seagull said:

I think you might need to accept that regardless of whether you have a telephone line or not, if there is a cable/line bringing Broadband to your home, you're going to pay a rental for it one way or another.

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Virgin offer it without line rental. Do no other companies?

 

Bold Seagull

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Mar 18, 2010

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Mellotron said:

Virgin offer it without line rental. Do no other companies?

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It costs £22 per month for 30mb - the line rental is in there basically, they've just priced it together (reminds me of ticket price - booking fees!!).

If you take their basic collection, it's £15 including freeview TV, Tivo box, BB, unlimited w/e landline calls plus £15 for the line rental. They make it so that it appears silly not to get the whole lot with them.

 

Mellotron

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Bold Seagull said:

It also costs £22 per month for 30mb - the line rental is in there basically, they've just priced it together (reminds me of ticket price - booking fees actually!!).

If you take their basic collection, it's £15 including freeview TV, Tivo box, BB, unlimited w/e landline calls plus £15 for the line rental.

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Not sure where you're getting your info from but I'm looking on the VM site and it says £22.50 p/m for 60mb, which is a good price for that speed.

 

Bold Seagull

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Mar 18, 2010

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Mellotron said:

Not sure where you're getting your info from but I'm looking on the VM site and it says £22.50 p/m for 60mb, which is a good price for that speed.

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For the first 3 months, it then reverts to £27.50 per month.

It's £17.50 for 30mb for the first 3 months, then £22.50.