Is it possible to get broadband without a telephone line?

Question

Moving house soon, and we dont want to get a home telephone line as we all have mobiles and feel theres no need for a home phone, yet we need broadband, is it possible to have broadband without having a home phone line?

Answer 1

yes it is look for now broadband they are very good i used them for two years

Edit: It is a Modem that sits in you window which you plug your computer into.  You dont need a telephone line

Answer 2

u need a line but dont have to have a phone. thats what we did

Answer 3

no need to have a landline...just get cable, DSL or Wi-max!!

Answer 4

You are still going to need a wall socket which you plug your modem into so although you don't need a telephone line you're still going to have to be connected via an underground cable to your ISP (internet service provider.

Answer 5

Yeah you can get cable broadband internet service.

Answer 6

Yes I have via a Virgin cable network

Answer 7

You dont need a phone line in your home to get fast Broadband.

You can get a mobile broadband connection using a usb plug in device.

Answer 8

For broadband, you need a telephone line.  Get cable, its faster, and doesn't require.  One problem is... if you live in a rural area, chances are they don't have it in your area.

Answer 9

Quite a few answers above but I found them quite confusing so I thought I would join the thread! I went through similar thought process having moved house a month ago and here's a summary.

You do need a BT line for most of the broadband providers but, as said above, you don't need to use the phone itself, you just need to pay line rental, which is £11 with BT at the moment. A bit of a pain if there's no BT line at your new address as having the line installed costs £125. And then you will need add costs of broadband on top of that which I think will be minimum of £7 so at least £18/month.

Another option is to go with cable - you can get Virgin broadband only for £17 a month. But, here's my favourite bit about Virgin - if you get a package - broadband and phone - it will cost £15 a month. Installation costs £30 and if you order it online you get, I think, £20 discount.

Or you can go with a 3G card which is a wireless card which you can get from mobile providers that you just insert into your PC and you get internet. I haven't cosidered this option as I doubt it's reliability, speed and cost.

So to sum up, yes, you can have broadband without a phone line although with Virgin it is cheaper to have both :)

Hope this helps!

Answer 10

Yes no telephone line needed for broadband!

Answer 11

you do not need a land line for broadband my son has only a mobile phone - but he has broadband ok

Answer 12

only if you have cable access which is not every where i live in a large town that does not have cable access at all check to see if you are able to access cable where you would want the broadband set up