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Anyone else on PO phone disgusted with their recent £2 per month landline increase? They also increased the landline charge by £1 per month in April last year - so that's a 25% increase in 9 months, when inflation is less than 2% - incredible! I rang to complain, and the guy who answered wouldn't even discuss it with me, said it was BT's fault. Grrrrr
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.OpenReach (which owns the copper cables and associated infrastructure) is BT-owned but has to operate totally separate accounts to BT. That's to ensure fairness, as BT then has to pay OpenReach the same price to access their services as other operators do.
So if OpenReach put their prices up, everyone else is likely to follow suit (unless they're prepared to reduce their own profits).
Post Office line rental at £15 per month (or the equivalent of just £12 per month if you pay for a year in advance) is still cheaper than BT's own basic line rental fee of £16.99 per month.
A relevant link:
http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ news/ma gazine- 3027366 7
So if OpenReach put their prices up, everyone else is likely to follow suit (unless they're prepared to reduce their own profits).
Post Office line rental at £15 per month (or the equivalent of just £12 per month if you pay for a year in advance) is still cheaper than BT's own basic line rental fee of £16.99 per month.
A relevant link:
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Virgin cable will be fibre optics and not part of the original copper network. If they lay their own cables then sure, they won't be BT owned. But cable telephones I suspect are still the exception. If laid it makes sense to carry calls on them along with the data. But most customers will be on the original copper as there is little incentive to bear the cost of replacing it until it needs replacing anyway.