@Bigmeuprudeboy wrote:
That means you have to have a landline then??
It means you have to have a copper or fibre optic physical cable to your property, else how else would the fibre broadband be delivered to you.
What it doesn't mean is that you need a phone service too. Going what is known as Broadband only, means you won't get a "landline" voice service.
As already stated , it’s unfortunate a lot of people conflate landline and telephone thinking they are the same thing , a broadband only customer needs a physical connection, either copper or fibre , that ‘line’ needs to be paid for , with broadband it’s part of the broadband price, what this connection is called isn’t really important, but you don’t need to have a telephone service over it unless you want to….it’s reasonably easy , proceed to checkout , the price should be a little cheaper than the equivalent broadband with a phone service included, the item to check on the website as said ,is probably is more to aid identifying the property and its current connection status than adding on a telephone service you don’t want …it is ( IMHO ) unhelpful for BT to use the term landline for broadband only , if the website said ‘ we will set you up with a connection’ rather than a ‘landline’ , it would be clearer, but BT ( and most others ) continue to do it