I'd call cable a landline. We have cable running along under the pavement in
my street and a cap just outside our wall which would enable the cable
company to connect us, but that would mean paid-for TV, phone and internet
all in one package. The system we have is paid-for telephone via overhead
wires from a telegraph pole to our house to a phone socket to which is
connected a telephone and a separately paid-for wireless broadband modem and
service - could be with one company for both, but choose not to and we could
also have paid-for television through the overhead phone line.
We could choose paid-for TV phone and broadband via satellite, but as the
phone is connected to the house, I'd still call that a landline as opposed
to a mobile.
Don't think it's possible to have a broadband which doesn't need a phone
line of some sort that you're paying for even if it's in a broadband
package, even if you don't use it.
We get free television via an aerial on the top of our roof, at the moment
both 34 different digital and 4 analogue channels. We could add a free
satellite service as well because our main TV has built-in tuners for both
free TV via an aerial and satellite, the other two just have free TV both
analogue and digital via the aerial. Our area goes completely digital in
2012. We don't pay for TV because we can't see the point for paying for more
repeats than we already get. We're thinking of adding free satellite because
our aerial signal is quite weak, even boosted and we get some break-up of
picture and sound. When we switch completely to full power in 2012 when the
analogue signal is switched off, one of the 6 multiplexes won't have the
power that the other 5 will have because it would interfere with French TV -
to which we say s** the French!
Optical cable has been installed in a large part of the next town for
superfast broadband, but that isn't up and running yet, and from what I've
heard is going to be very expensive.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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