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What is wholesale line rental?

With a secondary phone supplier, you’d normally have to pay two bills – one for your calls, and a BT one for your line rental. A new system called Wholesale Line Rental means that a secondary supplier can offer to pay BT for the line rental on your behalf, combining your bills for you.

The home phone regulator, Ofcom, has been campaigning for this for some time, claiming that the old system was too complicated.

Over half a million UK telecom customers use wholesale line rental products, and this number is expected to double in the next few months as more telephone companies offer line rental and more people switch from BT.

Carrier pre-selection (CPS) and whole sale line rental

According to Ofcom, over 5 million UK home phone customers use carrier pre-select operators for their calls, up from about 3.3 million in March 2004. CPS providers are the ones that offer cheaper calls over your BT connection.

Now with companies like YourCalls.net, Hive Telecom, Primus Saver, and the Post Office you can set up a single Direct Debit for your line rental and cheaper calls together. Switch and save: it’s never been easier.

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