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What is wholesale line rental?

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.

UK line rental charges

ProviderPackage NameMonthly Package CostMonthly Line RentalDayEveningWeekend 
Primus Home Phone SaverFree£8.993.00pFreeFree
Evening + Weekend PlanFree£9.253.00pFreeFree
Primus Eco SaverFree£9.693.50pFreeFree
Home Phone Evening and WeekendsFree£10.993.95pFreeFree
Talk UK Evening & Weekend£1.95£11.495.80pFreeFree
Unlimited Weekend PlanFree£9.495.90p1.50pFree

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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Comments

I am currently a talk talk customer after changing from BT a few years ago. I am looking to leave talk talk and move to sky. They require a BT line. Would this work with me paying BT for the line rental and sky for the rest or would they deal with the whole deal?
I would not come back to BT before you ask.
Can you please advise
- Oct 9 2009 9:11PM