It is Virgin ADSL with evening and weekend calls.

I pay line rental to BT.

I just thought that when i get FTTC, to move my calls to BT instead of having calls, line rental, and broadband at 3 different places.

Now you have me confused .

Have you decided yet who you are going to go to for FTTC? I think just about all of them could do all three for you, though my personal preference is stick with BT for rental and calls, then broadband wherever. The bundle reductions are usually minor and I would find the hassle of checking what is feasible every time I wanted to move not worth it.

At the moment everything is too hypothetical to advise you on the best sequence of moves.

Lol, right sorry for the confusion.

At the moment I have ADSL broadband with Virgin including evening and weekend calls. The line rental is with BT.

I don't know who I'm going with for fttc just yet. I thought line rental had to be with BT? And I wasn't aware of anywhere doing fttc broadband and calls. I thought it all just broadband not calls.

Within PlusNet's standard (non-FTTC) packages, you can certainly get them to take ownership of the line for voice calls too.

In the FTTC trial, you can add FTTC on top of this combination too.

The line is notionally a "BT" one, in that it still runs through BT's exchange kit, and not LLU.

So with Plusnet can you have a Post Office phone ?

I have emailed them but no answer yet. Probably have to give them a call later.

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So with Plusnet can you have a Post Office phone ?

I have emailed them but no answer yet. Probably have to give them a call later.

That's an upside-down question!

You can have Plusnet Broadband on a Post Office phone line, yes. Or if you are on a BT (Retail) line and broadband on Plusnet, you can move the phone line rental to the Post Office, Plusnet, or a host of others. Even Sky!

You just have to make sure the service you move the line to allows you to have any ISP's broadband on it, not just the rental firm's own.

So some possibles above. Some not possibles are:-

Broadband not with Plusnet and phone not with Plusnet, you cannot move the line to Plusnet unless you migrate your broadband to them as well. Though I believe if you have both with Plusnet you can migrate the broadband out and keep the phone line.

Broadband not with O2 or Be, you cannot move your phone line to O2 or Be unless you also migrate the broadband to the same one. But if you migrate the broadband out, you have to move the line out as well soon after.

I wasn't aware of that. I think it's best having line rental with BT though.

Well I currently have my phone with the Post Office and broadband with O2.

When I trialled an order online with Plusnet is detected that my line wasn't BT or Plusnet and just offered me the chance to migrate the phone line to Plusnet when ordering the broadband. There was no option to just order the broadband.

Anyway, no response from my email to Plusnet (Why have an enquiry form if you don't reply ?). So just rang them and yes I could keep my Post Office phone line and transfer just the broadband.

Just tried another trial order and it now works as expected and I see a completely different set of pages. So guess it must of been a glitch the other day.

Edited by alanscoachdriver (Wed 23-Feb-11 18:19:30)

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... So guess it must of been a glitch the other day.

Yep, a dodgy link perhaps.

What would 21CN WBC mean to my current broadband (Virgin ADSL)? That gets enabled on 31st March. Will it bring any other LLU providers with it?

I would go with BT Infinity because there's no installation costs and you don't have to buy a router, but i hear they've got a lot of problems, and i'm worried about their traffic management. That's why i'm ruling them out.