FTTP - Do you also have to pay the line rental charge?

If you have an FTTP on demand service, do you need to pay the BT line rental charge if you discontinue your copper connection?

Depends on what rules the retail provider decides to impose

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Depends on what rules the retail provider decides to impose

OK, so would BT Openreach charge the retail provider for the copper and fibre connections separately?

Yes, they both need to be maintained.

If I remember correctly, the bundled charge from Openreach (to the wholesaler) for both voice and broadband amounts to largely the same amount as broadband alone.

And I think that remains true whether the voice goes down copper, or as a separate VLAN on the fibre.

Of course, to Opereach, a line rental is to help provide the access network - an empty pipe - not to provide either a broadband or telephony service over the top of it.

Obviously the wholesale level needs to add their charges for supplying telephony as a distinct service from broadband - and they may decide that bundling is an appropriate way to go too.

In reply to a post by ryant704:

Yes, they both need to be maintained.

Why maintain the copper connection? I see no need for a copper connection. I could use VOIP for a landline connection.

Sorry, I thought you wanted both.

You will have to pay off the remaining amount of months of your line rental unless the ISP are willing to do this for you.

Edited by ryant704 (Fri 19-Apr-13 21:58:16)

Looking at the GEA-FTTP price list, two options seem to exist one with the copper and one without.

Would need to confirm it at the Openreach level, and then the other levels might pick to make it a requirement, so that they get revenue from xfactor voting

Why maintain the copper connection? I see no need for a copper connection.

Maybe you don't, but perhaps the next owner of your property might want to use a service provider who does not provide a fibre based product,

999 calls?