John wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I agree with everything that Jim and Eeyore have said. The only thing
> that I can add to the pot is that, after 10 years, you will
> *definitely* have to pay to have a working line re-instated and it's
> currently around the £125 mark.[/color]

Is 10 years the cut off? BT told me that ours had been disconnected for
around 10 years when we moved in (previous occupants used Cable).

Although BT sent an engineer round to reconnect some of the pairs it still
cost us nowt!

jon