It used to be the case that ‘telephony’ was required if you wanted broadband, and it’s still the case that ISP have to advertise the costs of broadband including the line rental as you cannot remove the line rental portion, line rental is required with broadband, but is included in the broadband price.
Things have changed, but in my opinion they have continued the misapprehension that telephony and line rental are the same thing , if you have FTTP and chosen to have telephony, even when the telephony is Digital Voice and your phone is plugged into the router , then there still is ‘line rental’ charge included in the broadband but there is a charge for the phone service , if you have pay and go calls , it effectively is between £2 and £5 a month ( that’s the size of the reduction you would get if you didn’t take a phone service with your broadband ) but the ‘no telephony’ option , means they don’t even have a phone number associated with the broadband, no dialtone , no incoming or outgoing calls no 999 calls either , it’s not simply the case of not making calls so I don’t need ‘line rental’.
If you take telephony you have to take a call plan , if it’s not PAYG ( which in effect is £2 -£5 ) there are two other calls plans , 700 mins and ‘unlimited’ , (this could show on your bill as ‘line rental’ ) if quarterly billed , the 700 min plan is £7.50 a month more than PAYG ( so would be around £9.50 - £12.50 a month ) or perhaps they have given a discount on the unlimited plan , which is normally around £16 a month more than PAYG , so £18-£21 a month , but the call plans seem to be negotiable
