telephone line rental rip off

[mydogmuppet]

So the Internet tells me that all ISPs pay BT OpenReach some £84 PA for residential phone lines bought in bulk to provision ISP - broadband & telephony charges.

Wouldn't it be great if some enterprising company sold cheap line rental to the UK public....wait the Post Office. Yes the Post Office's mark up is only 43%. Yes £120 PA. The cheapest I can find for landlines that we've all paid ten times over for. BT current price £16 per month - that's £192 or an eye watering £170 PA in advance. A massive 102% mark up....on their own inhouse product.

Can you find ANY ISP who will provision broadband & telephony services over a landline rental contract they have not sold you ?

I cannot.

So you get screwed over for price inflated line rental annual saver packages whilst they advertise a headline grabbing low data and call prices.

What do those people at OfCom do ? They are so behind the curve on ISP marketing & sales scams its criminal.

If BT had not been privatised, would we get the actual cost of line rental? Doubt it but maybe a future government will look into having core infrastructure back in the public sector.

the days of separate line rental and services contracts are long gone. Or rather, you can do it but it costs a bomb.

the landlines need maintaining and upgrading, so we have to keep paying. Sorry.