Broadband? No landline?

Welcome to the UK's best guide to getting broadband without a phone line. Your options are as follows:

• 1) Get broadband without installing a phone line broadband without phone line
• 2) Get a new phone line with home broadband broadband & home phone
• 3) Get a new landline without broadband home phone & landline
• 4) Get a mobile broadband dongle mobile broadband
• 5) Get super-fast cable (fibre optic) broadband from Virgin Media (without the need for a BT line) Virgin Media broadband deals

Need more information?

How to set up a landline connection

• If required, you can sign up to BT online to get a new phone line connection or reconnect an active line at your property sign up with BT

Charges to get your landline set up

• Installation charge of £127.99 (accurate as of August 2010) - sometimes BT waives this charge when you sign up for a monthly broadband contract. These deals are always worth looking out for.
• If there is a working BT line in the property there should not be any charge to get set-up.
• Monthly line-rental starts from just £9.49 a month direct with BT

Do I have to sign to a 12 month contract with BT?

• Yes. Should you wish to cancel this and switch to another provider you will be subjected to a cancellation charge of £70.

Don’t want to get a BT land line? You might not have to:

Live in a cable broadband area?

Cable, or fibre optic, broadband is a service provided by Virgin Media and is for the most part only available in urban areas. With fibre optic technology, internet data comes to you through an underground network of cables, hence there is no need for a BT line.

Unlike the copper wires of an ADSL connection, the cables are made of fibre-optic material. The reason why you can attain much faster broadband speeds with cable is that the material used allows for far less signal degradation.

Enter your postcode into our postcode checker to see if you can get Virgin Media's fibre optic broadband in your area.

Consider mobile broadband

Mobile broadband is the latest technology in wireless broadband; it allows you to access the internet on your laptop or other computer almost anywhere, even when you’re abroad. You don’t have to be plugged into an Ethernet connection or even be in range of a hotspot because this technology provides you with your very own portable modem usually called a 'dongle'.