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Phoneline woes
A while ago we (myself and my other half) decided that NTL was far too expensive and decided to move over to Bulldog Broadband, at the time this was an excellent idea as Bulldog promised a £1 installation fee for a new line, as the current house didn’t have a BT line we took them up on this offer. We had phone and broadband and all was good.
Fast forward 12 months, Bulldog have serious issues setting up a direct debit and we’re £500 in arrears with them, we cancel and organise a payment plan with them to get rid of the final balance of the account. Now that the account is disconnected we move back to NTL (now Virgin Media) and have spent 6 months on their books.
Virgin have now caused some upset with the removal of Sky channels from the lineup, As we’re heavy SkyOne viewers we decided that going onto Sky would be the better option. Sky offer a nice broadband package if your a Sky subscriber of just £10/pm for their unlimited 8mb, and excellent deal when compaired with the current ISPs. The only downside was that I needed a BT line, as my Bulldog line was fitted by a BT Tech I assumed that I could return the Bulldog line back to BT.
I was wrong…
Turns out that Bulldog have their own network, they just lease the use of exchange space to place their own telecoms equipment, normal BT lines are just switched and rerouted to Bulldog’s equipment were as a new line is wired directly to them. No pass go, no collect £200. BT now want £120 to install yet another line into my house (making it a grand total of 3 phone lines). My only options are to stay with NTL/VirginMedia for my broadband or risk returning to Bulldog, that is, unless anyone else has any better ideas?
