Line Rental ?

[Elliot0101]

Hello Everyone,

I have just begun a contract for a basic Sky broadband package. Telephone landline calls are charged as 'pay as you talk' in this pack. 

Having done some further reading I have read about a  £18.99 line rental cost. 

I do not frequently use a landline but due to my area having sketchy mobile signal I chose a package where I could use a landline if need be. However I don't want to pay £18.99 for that privilege. 

Will I have to pay this line rental and if so when will I have to pay it? 

Thanks everyone in advance 

Elliot

[Mark39]

Line rental is included in the cost of your broadband service. There's nothing extra to pay.

[Elliot0101]

@Mark39 @

Oh perfect.  I never knew that such a large proportion of the monthly cost was line rental. 

Thank you for your quick response. 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Elliot0101 wrote:

 I never knew that such a large proportion of the monthly cost was line rental. 

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Essentially that's the cost of Openreach creating, maintaining, extending and upgrading a national phone/data network, including the rollout of optical infrastructure to replace a century of copper wire.