Are Letting Agencies obliged to provide you with a landline?
Discussion
t84 said:
60GB+ :-/
No idea what you're doing with all of that, just for home use. Seems a bit excessive?Our entire VOIP 'phone system, and all data for a web company (including web servers) running retail sites all over Europe comes to about 20Gb/month, for an office full of people on the 'phone all day!
You'll be lucky to get a 'phone line installed with less than a 12 month contract anyway, so even if you did arrange it, you'd be unlikely to get a 6 month phone/broadband contract from anybody. Broadband easy to arrange on a monthly basis, the 'phone line is harder.
Mobile Chicane said:
£120 for a bloke to come out and flick a switch in the control box in the street.
I had much the same reaction when they told me that before I moved into my current place... until I got here and upon double-checking the telephone provisions found a small green box about the size of a bar of soap with "GPO" stamped on it, and a matching green rotary dial telephone stashed in the back of a cupboard.God knows when it last had a BT line, but it must have been in the days when owning a pulse-dial telephone wouldn't leave you stranded at a computerised menu every time you tried to call a large company.
At least I got to have the master telephone socket put where I wanted it for my £128!
Conversely, BT charged me £120 to send a guy out to plug in a phone to the perfectly functional master socket, just because there hadn't been an active line for 3 years.
To add to the piss-taking, the bloke then disappeared with the broadband still inoperative - just stating 'it's your equipment', not giving me the chance to try any alternative equipment. That evening BT finally get back to me, apologising that they'd not activated the broadband and it wouldn't be live for a couple of days
To add to the piss-taking, the bloke then disappeared with the broadband still inoperative - just stating 'it's your equipment', not giving me the chance to try any alternative equipment. That evening BT finally get back to me, apologising that they'd not activated the broadband and it wouldn't be live for a couple of days
t84 said:
Hmm, Plusnet are charging £50 to install a new phoneline, I need broadband as well and Plusnet seem good, I might go with them 
I used madasafish, who as long as there's a line there already (activated or not), won't charge a penny for the install.Not sure what they'll charge you for 60Gb/month though.
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