Ofcom plans to return landline rental charges to 2009 levels

[Brian224]

As I said, Landlines ONLY are a dying market. The majority of the market also take some form of broadband.

Do you have any stats to back up your assertions?

According to ofcom "In 2016, eight in ten (81%) UK adults aged 16+ said they had broadband internet access at home"

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/63950/Internet-use-and-attitudes-2016.pdf

[Top_gun]

According to ofcom "In 2016, eight in ten (81%) UK adults aged 16+ said they had broadband internet access at home"

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/asse...tudes-2016.pdf

Sorry, it doesn't mean anything to me. It's just a survey about internet access. Meaningless with regards to landline usage.

Anyway, BT has 2.3 million landline only customers according to the Hexus news article.

If you multiply the number of customers with the cost of line rental over the course of the year then you realise it's not exact a dying market.

2300000 x 18.99 x 12 = £524,124,000.

In other words it's a half a billion pound market for BT.

[Sunderas]

Only on a retarded country you still charge for line rentals in the 21st century...

[Gerrard]

Only on a retarded country you still charge for line rentals in the 21st century...

So you expect those lines to maintain themselves, along with the exchanges?

[aidanjt]

Wrong post.