"Jonathan Pearson" <j.pearson@REMOVEtelco4u.net> wrote in message
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> John wrote:[color=green]
> >
> > I agree with everything that Jim and Eeyore have said. The only[/color][/color]
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> > 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[/color][/color]
it's[color=blue][color=green]
> > currently around the £125 mark.[/color]
>
> Is 10 years the cut off? BT told me that ours had been disconnected[/color]
for[color=blue]
> around 10 years when we moved in (previous occupants used Cable).
>
> Although BT sent an engineer round to reconnect some of the pairs it[/color]
still[color=blue]
> cost us nowt!
>
> jon
>
>
>[/color]

Ah, you've let it slip. If the previous occupants used cable then you
too can use cable and with them you <don't> have to have telephone or
TV. What is more cable is much more reliable IMO than ADSL and is
generally faster for similar cost.

If they used cable then unless you had it removed the likelihood is
that the cable will still be presented to your building so there
should be little or no installation charge.


--
Woody

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