Dumping home phone/landline
The chat seems to be down today.
I have a package of 500 Mbit cable broadband, and Weekend Chatter landline. Total cost £60 per month but with £11 discount until 17 November 2025 so I'm paying £49.
We only kept the landline for my wife's mother to ring on Sunday evenings, but she passed a couple of years ago. For some time the only other incoming calls have been from 'Kevin' at 'Bank Security Department' in India. Or double glazing sales people who don't bother checking TPS. Everybody we know or deal with uses emails, texts, mobile calling, or Whatsapp to keep in touch now. When my Virgin Mobile got moved over to O2 the signal at my house got so much better that I unplugged the landline handset and chucked it in the cupboard.
I just wondered, now I'm paying for something I don't use any more, would I be able to delete the landline service from my package and save money? Or would that mean that my contract was terminated and a new one started, losing my discount?
I would suggest any changes to your package will result in another 18 month contract. As for dropping the landline, this will increase you costs as VM give bigger discounts for multi packages. However, why not just leave the landline unplugged? When I had a VM landline a long time ago, I never used it, but it came with the package and made the broadband cheaper.