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O2 unveils cheapest UK line rental (06-09-10)

O2 customers looking to bundle their broadband with home phone can now take advantage of the UK’s cheapest line rental at just £7.50 a month...

Primus offers £99-a-year line rental (02-09-10)

Savvy home phone customers can save nearly £55 a year on their landline bills by switching to the new Primus Saver Plus deal...

BT drops paperless billing discount (01-09-10)

New customers signing-up to BT will no longer be able to take advantage of the provider’s £1.25 online-billing discount...

Google Call Phone lets you make calls from your email (26-08-10)

Google Gmail users in the US can now make phone calls directly from their email...

Cut price BT Infinity and home phone bundles (23-08-10)

BT has cut the cost of its fibre optic broadband packages for customers who also take its anytime calls package...

BT cuts the cost of phone line installation (23-08-10)

Home phone and broadband giant BT is offering cheap line installation to all new customers signing up to a BT call plan...

Six months free TalkTalk Essentials broadband (18-08-10)

Cheap internet provider TalkTalk broadband is offering new customers a massive six months free broadband when they sign up to its Essentials package...

BE broadband promises ‘cheaper than BT’ landline service (09-08-10)

Looking to save money on your landline bills? Consider switching to broadband provider BE, which promises to offer calls and line rental deals for less than BT...

Zen Internet launches competitive home phone bundles (09-08-10)

Best Buy broadband provider Zen Internet has launched two new home phone packages to complement its award-winning broadband...

TalkTalk hikes line rental and call costs (09-08-10)

TalkTalk is following in the steps of rival provider BT and hiking its line rental and daytime call costs this autumn...

Homephonechoices.co.uk gets Ofcom stamp of approval (03-08-10)

Homephonechoices.co.uk becomes the UK’s first accredited home phone price comparison website by telecoms regulator Ofcom...

Three months free BT broadband (02-08-10)

BT broadband is offering its Broadband and Anytime Calls package free for three months - saving customers almost £50...

New Ofcom code of practice for consumer complaints (22-07-10)

Broadband and home phone providers will have to work harder to resolve customer complaints under a new code of practice that will be introduced in January 2011...

BT hikes line rental by 50p a month (19-07-10)

BT is putting up line rental by 50p from 1 October to £12.04 a month...

BT unveils cheap line rental deal (17-07-10)

If you want cheap line rental, BT’s new Line Rental Saver deal could save you over £30 a year, but you’ll have to pay in advance...

BE broadband to launch landline service in September (29-06-10)

Broadband provider BE has revealed its plans to launch a home phone service later in the year, letting its subscribers save money on their line rental and calls...

Two months free on Virgin Media bundles (28-06-10)

Cable broadband giant Virgin Media is offering new customers two months free connection when they sign up to one of its bundles...

50p landline tax scrapped in austerity Budget (23-06-10)

British consumers can breathe a sigh of relief as plans to hit them with a 50p a month phone line tax have been scrapped by the new coalition government...

Watchdog slashes cost of leaving your phone supplier (17-06-10)

Hefty cancellation charges and long home phone contract lock-ins are now a thing of the past, thanks to new Ofcom rules...

Ofcom puts a stop to silent calls (14-06-10)

Homeowners who feel harassed or distressed by silent calls are being offered more protection under new rules set out by regulator Ofcom...

Chatty children rack up huge phone bills (04-06-10)

British children are causing havoc by clocking up massive home phone bills, figures from the Post Office reveal...

Hive Telecom offers extended free evening calls (02-06-10)

New home phone supplier Hive Telecom is offering the UK’s longest free evening calls hours - 6pm to 8am...

BT hikes phone line installation price (02-06-10)

BT, the UK’s biggest home phone supplier, has increased the price it charges for phone line installation to £127.99...

Free TalkTalk broadband and calls for a year (01-06-10)

Broadband and home phone provider TalkTalk is offering customers a massive 12 months free internet when they sign-up to its Essentials package...

BT downsizes the Phone Book (21-05-10)

The BT Phone Book has been given a makeover and trim, so it will fit into letter boxes and save 2,000 tonnes of paper every year...

Pre-7pm calls could cost Brits £450 extra a year (19-05-10)

Some of Britain’s biggest phone providers, including TalkTalk and Sky, are raising the time their free evening calls start, which could increase customers’ landline bills by £450 a year...

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