alternatives to british telecom, advice please

[richie_stix]

right, moved into a new flat last month and desperatly need the internet! but bt say they want £140 to connect the phone line? there is already a wall socket and it has a logo that is a capital T with 3 dots sort of making up one of the 'wings' on the T...

 

is there any other company that wont charge so much just to give me a number?

 

i assume since there is already a line there it cant be that much just to activate it?

 

ps... i hate BT

[trevb]

if you just want the internet, have a look at Virgin/ nlt. but if its like are flat, virgin haven’t even put a line in our road, so the only option was BT,

 

you could always look at mobile broadband, the little usb plug-in things, that 02, and other mobile phone companies sell.

 

I know not everyone likes BT, but i can say from first hand experience if things go wrong with bt they get it sorted, unlike Virgin who i've had so many problems with, and there customer service hasn’t got a sodding clue

 

Good luck!

[richie_stix]

 

the old bt logo, so i assume it must be an anchient line! tried virgin, not in my area (bloody sticks )... usb plug in mobile thingy = shit!

 

something like 2mb speed and like 3.5 gb limit per month ... afew hefty pivtures on osf, and some emails for work and that it... limit done!

 

do no other companies offer line rental then?

[Dr Feelgood]

why not try talktalk? thats who we're with and theyre a hello of a lot better than bloody bt

[trevb]

Could try speaking to the other people in the building, if one of them has wireless, you could offer the share the cost?

 

its not the best way to do it, but it could get you online by the of the day!

[Stu_B]

We have orange, 8mb broadband, unlimited download & they pay the line rental... £24

 

We ballsed it up though & got BT to reinstate the line, then went with orange & got charged by BT for ending the contract

 

Have a look at sky packages as well, thats what I'll do when my orange contract is up

[richie_stix]

yeah, i want talk talk... but you need the sodding BT line to get it! talk talk is by far the best value... 8mb speed and 40gb per month dowlaod, 2/3 of the price of BT!

 

and we tried to get other peoples networks... but they aren't powerful enough to reach us properly

 

it's a pain in my arse i tells ya!

[caprinerd]

we`re on orange but looking to change as they want to up the monthly payments here

[mk2_escort_chick]

To be honest we've never had any trouble with BT and I like the freebies that we get now.

Home hub and Bt Vision-ah the perks of having papa working for BT

 

Sky seem to be doing some good combo deals.

I wouldn't recommend Orange-Dean's with them and they are rather swank!

[Stu_B]

Never had a problem with Orange untill I got xbox live & it seems a bit laggy occasionaly!

[richie_stix]

it's not the ISP's im concerned about it's the actual line... take broadband out of the equation, i wana know what other options there are for setting up a phone line that not BT.

 

cheers

[emu]

Tell BT that you have only just moved in and that there is the box already there.

 

I lived in my house for around 4 years before I bothered to get the phone connected. I had a BT box like you describe. They wanted to charge me to start with but I told them that I didnt see why I should pay when it wasnt me who had it disconnected. They activated the line, but I still couldnt use it because I had no line from the telegraph pole to my house

 

spoke to them and said I had no dial tone. They sent round an engineer who then connected the pole up for me.

 

Never paid for any of it

[geoffersmasher]

i have virgins 20mb package at 36 a month but ive had this for 4 years and never once had a problem