Jukka Aho, in article tMrKi.229050$Ua4.103771
@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi, says...


Another way to solve the same problem would be asking the phone company
to install the ADSL connection on a spare copper pair coming to your
house - one that isn't currently in use. That way you won't need any
filters at all, as the telephone line will be totally separate from the
ADSL line from the get-go. (I've managed to persuade the local telephone
company to wire it that way here in Finland, but I'm not sure if it is
possible to get this kind of arrangement in the UK.)

But not in the UK - at least for free. Getting Openreach, the
wires-to-homes company for practically all telecomms service
providers, will charge over £100 to provide a new line, even
if there is a spare pair in their cable and you aren't
intending to use it for anything other than data.

You -can- have a second line, but then you will pay a second
rental to whoever provides any service. We have local loop
unbundling (LLU) in some (larger) places. Here the service
provider isn't necessarily BT, so the cost could be "free"
-no- "rolled into" to service provided by another provider.
These connections are all maintained by Openreach - for a fee
that someone has to pay.

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JohnW.
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