landline phone number

[madmondeo]

i am living in a rented house and would like to take out a broadband/phone line package. I currenly access the internet with a dongle in the side of my laptop. i am looking for a good deal as im sure i can find better than the $hit service i am getting with 3 for £15 a month for just a slow poor internet connection - no landline.

How would i find out the landline number used in these premises by the previous tennant? I'm sure he has a phone here!

thanks for your help!

[mollykins]

I don't know if many landlords allow tennants to have landlines, my sister has never had one . . . just a thought, I could be wrong.

[dothawkes31]

lol yes Molly you are wrong lol

[Ice.Maiden]

Don't see how a landlord could object to you putting a phone line in the house - it's you who'd be paying for it, not him/her, Then there's this....
O2* charges £9.50/mth for basic line rental, which comes with free evening and weekend calls to numbers beginning 01, 02 and 03 (for the first 60 mins - hang up and redial to avoid charges).

Elsewhere, call charges are reasonable if not earth shattering, with daytime local calls at 4.5p/min, calls to mobiles at 12p/min daytime, 7p evenings, and 9p connection fee on calls that aren't inclusive. It also allows you to use override providers.

Broadband:

You get 8Mbps with no download limit, and and a home phone line with free evening and weekend calls. O2's won 'best broadband provider' for 3 years running, so it comes with a good pedigree and excellent customer feedback. Its home phone's new though, so it's a bit of an unknown entity.

[AlBags]

Ring up BT and ask them if they have a record for that address .. I suppose they will. Take old one or new, whatever the best deal.
You could gat an inclusive package for BB (which incl phone line rental) You need the line available first.

[Prudie]

Just to add as I learnt this from a question I posted earlier this week it doesn't matter what speed 'up to' they offer, if your area hasn't got it then that's it. I only get 0,512 Mbs so doesn't matter who I'm with speedwise.

[AlBags]

^ ... unless it's with me...

[Prudie]

Tempting

[spudqueen]

http://www.postoffice...0674&mediaId=68600711

[theshedman]

Hi, I would go along with spudqueen if you just want phone line and broadband. I was with post office for 3 years and didn't have any problems at all and you can pay either by direct debit or by using post office card to pay a bit each week if you want. It was one of the cheapest I found and didn't add on bits if you didn't want to pay by DD. They offer cheap line rental, free evening and weekend calls and free calls to mobiles at weekends which comes in handy these days. Worth a look.

[bushbaby_de]

You don't need to know if anyone has ever had a line there before or what the number was, just call up and say you want a landline account and they will give you a number. If there isn't a phoneline into the house (ie no one has ever had an account there) you might have to pay a connection fee though.