Telefonica - Expensive I have just found with a first bill of nearly €104 (1 month) and only made two Spanish landline calls !!!

€40 for 3MB ADSL
+ €4 for Antivirus (never asked for AV)
+ €19 Line rental
+ €9 Europe (think that is for cheap calls to UK)
+ €17 for 'Conceptos Ocasionales"... don't know what that is meant to be.
+ €15 Tax

In UK there advertising Broadband for £9 a month !!!

Have you not got the "Duo" package??

ADSL 24 hours and all national (in Spain!) landline phone calls free.

We pay 40 euros for the ADSL
14 euros for the line rental
And the tax is around 8.50 euros (16%)

That's it! 62.50 a month (Expensive enough, but needs must )

It would be worth contacting Telefonica and checking what package you've got, and telling them the things you don't want.

Surely you'd be better off using Voipcheap for calls to the UK? Much cheaper than 9 euros a month!

I have to say that I was really impressed with both Telefonica and our estate agents when we bought our apartment - the phone (really spanky smart and far more sophisticated than anything readily available in the UK) was already installed, complete with our new number.

It's true that I've yet to try and cancel the number or move it to another property, so perhaps I shall have that cliff yet to climb.

Some thirty seven or so years ago, it took my parents around three years to get a line installed (in the same area) and they had to pay an absolute fortune, but they kept reassuring my mother that she actually owned the telephone pole proudly erected outside their house. She did enquire as to whether they thought she'd take it with her if she moved!

Thanks for that Brisca. I'll look into it. The Europa is the wife's idea who spends hours talking to her family/friends in UK. We actually have VOIP / SKYPE but if she wants to talk to the UK on SKYPE I cannot use the PC. So €9 a month is worth it for the peace !!!!

If you use Voipcheap you can connect for 5 cents and talk for free on your landline and use the pc at the same time

Also jajah

Cheers!

However we don't have wireless router and only one telephone point at the moment - so we'd both be in the same room - not a good idea - which means I can't bare to hear the ramblings of what's happening to Mrs X's breast cancer or how so&so is pregnant for the fifth time... whilst talking football to my son... or surfing the web... know what I mean??

Yes I have to get another router or an extension !

I might be being a bit thick here, because I'm not very technically minded .....................but do you have a cordless phone?
If so, you just need about 10 seconds to connect the phone call using your computer, and then you can banish your wife to another room while she's talking!

Or drill a hole through the wall into the next room and poke the wire through.