Landline Phone Rental - It's Too Expensive

We've all wondered why landline phone rental costs so much. Some say it's because Telstra has a captive landline phone market. (For decades, their infrastructure was the only one capable of handling Australia's landline phone requirements.) Some say it's because phone calls made over conventional phone lines are simply more expensive.

With 3G mobile networks, you can do away with landline phone rental entirely. Don't worry, you're not getting rid of your residential home phone service. You're simply changing the way your voice travels to the person on the other end of the line. It's a residential phone service without the expense of landline phone rental - the best of both worlds.

Instead of transmitting your voice through Telstra's conventional phone line infrastructure, Virgin Broadband At Home sends it via the 3G mobile network. And it can all be handled through a single company. So instead of instead of paying home phone line rental and broadband access separately (quite often through two different companies), with a wireless Internet and home phone package, you're only paying one provider for one connection.

And it couldn't be simpler. With the right ISP (such as Virgin Mobile), you simply plug your existing home phone into the supplied modem, voila! All home phone calls from that point on are made over the 3G mobile network using HSDPA technology, so you can make vopice calls whilst surfing the internet at broadband speeds.

So don't keep paying landline phone rental. Keep your residential phone service, but do away with the cost of Telstra's conventional phone line infrastructure. Look for a bundled broadband Internet connection and home phone deal, instead. It could save you hundreds - if not thousands - of dollars a year. In fact, some households will cut their home phone bill in half and get free broadband, to boot!