In reply to a post by professor973:

Other than that, I was under the impression that Market A & 1 led to no change in priced from those where it had a bearing - Another case of call it what you like, but the product stays the same.

Perhaps your exchange was reclassified from Market 1 to Market B when Market A/B came in.

You can see the Market A price here: https://pulse8broadband.co.uk/docs/Pulse8-Broadband-...

Under "Unlimited Broadband packages" it says: "8Mbps Home Broadband (No Fixed I.P.) £28". Line rental is also £8 instead of £6.

It's 8 meg because most if not all Market A exchanges were never upgraded by BT to 24 meg WBC due to the lack of LLU competition.

Or perhaps the Pulse8 £28 + £8 price is simply determined by whether the exchange has WBC or IPstream Connect. The "8 meg" description seem to point to that.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

And maybe pulse8 pricing is not matched to either of those but depends on what LLU options there are at the exchange

Actually I've just seen that Pulse8 XLHome is LLU (presumably TalkTalk wholesale).

So the pricing is probably purely down to whether the exchange has TalkTalk LLU or not. Unusually for Market A exchanges, professor973's exchange has TalkTak LLU which explains the lower price he gets despite the Market A classification of his exchange.

I suppose if BT want to compete with Sky for sports TV, they will have to raise their basic packages too (i.e. line rental).

In reply to a post by camieabz:

I suppose if BT want to compete with Sky for sports TV, they will have to raise their basic packages too (i.e. line rental).

They not allow to do that. What if we don't have any sky sports or bt sports

While a drop in number of minutes of calls on landlines of 50 million over 5 years is large, the 90 million minutes in 2013 was a long way from barely used.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

While a drop in number of minutes of calls on landlines of 50 million over 5 years is large, the 90 million minutes in 2013 was a long way from barely used.

Most of that would of been me nan!

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

While a drop in number of minutes of calls on landlines of 50 million over 5 years is large, the 90 million minutes in 2013 was a long way from barely used.

I bet a lot of those calls where to 0800 and 0845/70 numbers though.... and with new pricing coming into affect on mobiles I think that will surely decline in the coming years...

I'm also sure that as soon as I get my nan off here 7 year old tariff with O2 and onto something with a bit more value and quality she will use the ouse phone a lot less, I know my other grandmother has reduced her landline calls by around 65% on the house phone since I got her a sim from VM with around 1200 minutes on and in the coming year he phone line might be switched off or to a VoIP provider..

But moving away from traditional landlines is a popular thing at the moment.

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

And maybe pulse8 pricing is not matched to either of those but depends on what LLU options there are at the exchange

Actually I've just seen that Pulse8 XLHome is LLU (presumably TalkTalk wholesale).

So the pricing is probably purely down to whether the exchange has TalkTalk LLU or not. Unusually for Market A exchanges, professor973's exchange has TalkTak LLU which explains the lower price he gets despite the Market A classification of his exchange.

They use the Talk Talk Business model like A&A and others.

In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

While a drop in number of minutes of calls on landlines of 50 million over 5 years is large, the 90 million minutes in 2013 was a long way from barely used.

I bet a lot of those calls where to 0800 and 0845/70 numbers though.... and with new pricing coming into affect on mobiles I think that will surely decline in the coming years...

I'm also sure that as soon as I get my nan off here 7 year old tariff with O2 and onto something with a bit more value and quality she will use the ouse phone a lot less, I know my other grandmother has reduced her landline calls by around 65% on the house phone since I got her a sim from VM with around 1200 minutes on and in the coming year he phone line might be switched off or to a VoIP provider..

But moving away from traditional landlines is a popular thing at the moment.

My landline proved its worth a few months ago when i had to call for an ambulance the operator thought it was in the other end of the country when i used a mobile. switched to landline and they knew my address.

Also old handsets which use the ringwire are great for power cuts and other emergencies