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Moving house monday, so have cancelled my broadband which is still going to run for another month for the contract, have had BT stop my line last night, but am still on the internet!!, I thought I wouldn`t be able to access the net once the line has been stopped (no dial tone when pick up phone, and number not recognized is I call it).
Pretty sweet i though, perhaps everyone on broadband not wanting to pay line rental can cancel their line, and still have the net! :)

Broadband is a different thang to normal voice signal. It`s a high frequency transmission. As long as the broadband provider has not cancelled as well, you`ll still be able to use it. neat eh? I`ve known about this for a while....but.. sooner or later BT will find out and remove the broadband .....

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This item was edited on Monday, 20th September 2004, 16:56

We had this at work. We cancelled the phone line but wanted to keep the ADSL up and running and were told at the time it would be fine.

For months, nearly a year our ADSL continued to work until there was some fault at our local exchange and they had to do something to the database. Obviously it was then they realised our phone line had been disconnected and decided to swithc our ADSL off. BT told us that we should have been told the ADSL would be fine as it HAS to be on a working line so we had to re-activate the line in order to have the least disruption. Otherwise it would mean ordering another line and getting that activated...a possible lead time of 2 weeks.

So yeah, ADSL does often keep working after the phone line`s been cut.