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Standalone broadband

ADSL is the technology that lets you receive broadband into your home down your standard telephone line.  If you have a cable telephone line into your home from Virgin Media, you’ll receive cable broadband through a similar technology.

This technology also lets you talk on the phone line while you surf the internet, at the same time, and on the same line.  It does this by splitting the signal on your telephone line in two.

There are hundreds of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that offer broadband through a telephone line in the UK.  While they all need an active telephone line to make the broadband work, none of the packages they offer will disrupt the telephone service provided by your home phone supplier, and you can use the two separately as standalone services.  If you want to switch your home phone provider, it won’t affect your broadband, and if you want to set up broadband or switch your existing broadband provider, it won’t affect your home phone.

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