In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

If people want full transparency, then people will need to be billed multiple things

1. Line rental with no calls
2. Call bundle
3. Broadband service
4. A billing/support charge

and things like broadband hardware charged at proper cost not free, same for migrations and activations charge the wholesale plus a reasonable margin.

Sounds good. Get moving - organise it.

All you need to do is mobilise a few hundred thousand like Corbyn did. Then deluge the PM's site with petitions and Ofcom with similar.

"Together we can".

LOL

My view is that there should be a fifth "item" in the list: line rental with no voice service. I unplugged the phone wire a week after my (then) ISP published the phone number in a business directory and the spam calls started. I have no need for a voice line at all, so why am I forced to pay for it? All I want is the copper pair to the FTTC cabinet.

Having said all that, isn't this supposed to be about mobile base station site rentals, not landlines?

I'd have thought that moving/setting up different mobile base sites ought to be getting easier and cheaper, so the mobile networks ought to be able to drive a hard bargain.

You think the farmers shouldn't get a decent cut of the hundreds of millions profit they are making?

Re lines with no calls, Openreach have trials running. See this document.

Also this recent thread on these forums.

And after a year or two, a Which? campaign to simply bills will appear and be back to square one.

depends how much more they are asking for rooftop rent masts seems to be around £1000-£2000 a month, be interesting how much farmers are getting

In reply to a post by hoopla:

I'd have thought that moving/setting up different mobile base sites ought to be getting easier and cheaper, so the mobile networks ought to be able to drive a hard bargain.

I guess it is the same as a fibre cabinet: You need to get power to the site, and backhaul.

Moving could instantly cost tens of thousands - so the status quo has an automatic advantage.

And, of course, the site will have become an integrated part of the overall network plan - and there may only be a few alternative locations that fit topographical needs - both for meeting existing coverage and for avoiding new interference.

In reply to a post by leexgx:

silly anti blocking adblock website

Try downloading RefControl as a plug in - you control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis.