How can we keep BT from eating up our Vonage savings? Our BT Yahoo includes 15 GB of monthly traffic. We use our phone a lot and imagine that the Voip phone plus other Web browsing will put us into overage territory. Also, can we eliminate BT landline telephone service altogether if we continue to purchase BT broadband? If not, could we reduce their telephone service to a low-use "grandmother" plan? If we could do that, could we not then just add call diversion to the BT phone service to forward calls our new Vonage number until most of our callers learn the new number? (We are doing this call diversion now but apparently, BT charges the local rate for every call diverted. Do they do it once for each call, or do they charge every minute the diverted call is underway?
Our BT Yahoo includes 15 GB of monthly traffic. We use our phone a lot and imagine that the Voip phone plus other Web browsing will put us into overage territory.
My calculation might be horribly flawed, but if you used your Vonage line on full quality 24 hours a day for a month, you're looking at less than 500MB of data, so it shouldn't have too much effect on your usage limits.
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Also, can we eliminate BT landline telephone service altogether if we continue to purchase BT broadband? If not, could we reduce their telephone service to a low-use "grandmother" plan?
As far as I am aware, BT dropped the light user scheme as they realised that it isn't in their nature to help people save money.
Generally, BT won't give you a line just for ADSL. I remember hearing that some ISPs wanted to offer a 'no line rental' service, no idea if that ever happened though. In any case, the cost of the ADSL service would just be increased to cover BT's charges, so you'd not save much.
you should write to your MP and OFCOM, the telecoms regulator and tell them you want to be able to buy your ADSL connection separate from your phone line. this is called "naked dsl" and we should be able to do this like other countrues. however BT continues to throw obstacles in face of offering more choice. more pressure needs to be put on the government. remember tax payers have effectively built that phone infrastructure so why cant we as taxpayers take advamtage of it in the way WE want
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