With Virgin Media Phone services, do you pay line rental to bt or do you pay virgin for the line rental?

Question

I do not want to pay two bills to two different companies.

Forgot to mention that I am not in a cable area but they do offer me unlimited calls and internet for £19.99, Do I still pay line rental to bt for this?

Answer 1

you pay to virgin as they have taken over ntl lines not bt ones phillip just got to say u only need bt line for sky and that was sky that set that up not bt

Answer 2

Have checked with Virgin media, if you are in a non cabled area, you will need to pay BT for the rental of their phone line (£11 per month if paid by direct debit)
But as you won't need the phone you can still get Virgin Media Broadband internet, and if you pay about £10 per month extra to BT to go to their option 3, this will include unlimited phone calls to geographical numbers.
If you just want Broadband from Virgin media, it will not be as reliable for speed as cabled areas, up to 1mb £14.99, up to 8mb £17.99.

Answer 3

I think it all depends on whether you are connected by cable to Virgin or whether you access them through BT. In my case I make my calls via Talk-Talk, but I still have to pay landline rental to BT so I get two bills but it works out cheaper than just having one from BT. My TV is Sky satellite and terrestial not cable TV, so I pay sky for TV as well as Licence Fee to BBC.

But if your virgin media connection is linked to reception of Cable TV (ex NTL) then i think you will pay everything just to them but it may well cost you more, and with cable TV you will get very poor channel coverage compared to if you had satellite? and whatever you've got you will still have to pay your Licence Fee to the BBC even if you never watch BBC Channels, so no way of avoiding being billed by two or more different companies in rip off Britain.

Answer 4

virgin are a cable company so you rent the line from virgin. BT own most lines as i have found to my cost and i cant get virgin because I'm not in a cable area hope this helps

Answer 5

HI there

You pay Virgin Media for your line rental because they install their own phone line. You onlty need to pay for BT for any line rental if you have BT line.

Scott

Answer 6

You pay line rental to virgin media, We used to have a bt line but had it disconnected when we switched to ntl and have paid the cable company ever since.

Answer 7

I cannot say but I would suggest BT. BT lines are normally required for all services as such.

Bloody BT and the monopoly. Microsoft didn';t get away with it so why should BT.