Line Rental

Sky home phone customers will be hit by line rental price hikes along with a number of other price rises from 1 December.

Many Plusnet customers will be hit with price rises, including line rental increases, from 23 September. If you're affected, you can leave the firm without penalty.

Virgin Media has launched the UK's first 'quad-play' bundles, selling home phone, broadband, digital TV and Sim-only mobile services under a single package. But if you're in the 50% of the UK that can get them, are they worth switching to?

A new broadband service has launched this week that doesn't require a landline.

BT customers began being charged for its previously-free 1571 answerphone and caller display services on Saturday. So opt out now if you have either of these services and don't use them, or you'll be charged £1.75/month for each – that's £42/year for both.

Most of Virgin Media's five million home phone, broadband and TV customers will be hit by average price hikes of 6.7% from February.

You'll soon be able to cancel mobile, landline, and broadband contracts without penalty if your provider hikes prices mid-contract and didn't forewarn you before getting the deal, after regulator Ofcom clarified its rules.

Just over four million Sky customers will pay 25% more for line rental from December compared to this time last year, as the provider is hiking costs. Some call costs are also due to rise too.

Many TalkTalk and Plusnet home phone and broadband customers will be hit by prices rises from 1 October.

Telephone and broadband customers could pay less for their services in future, following Ofcom proposals announced this week, which would see wholesale charges fall.