BT lines at wholesale prices — same line, up to 63% less

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Here's the part most businesses never get told: the line BT's retail arm sells you and the line we sell you are the same physical line, on the same Openreach network, maintained by the same engineers. BT retail adds a retail margin. We don't — that's the whole idea. UK Wholesale has supplied business lines this way since 2005, from our offices in Poole and Hyde, with experts you can actually speak to when something needs doing. If you're paying BT retail prices for line rental, the section below shows what the identical line costs without the margin.

What the same line costs with us

• One flat rate, whatever the line type. Analogue, ISDN2 or ISDN30 — every channel is £13.99 a month on our wholesale line rental.
• Fully compatible with any equipment that requires a BT line — it still is one. Alarms, card machines, franking machines, lifts and fax all carry on as before.
• Our price-beat promise. Find line rental cheaper anywhere else and we'll beat it — and give you a month free.

Openreach line, wholesale bill

Your line stays on the BT Openreach network with the same engineers and reliability. The only changes: a smaller bill and a named account manager. Keeping copper past the switch off? We can run yours to 2030.

The mechanics are simple. Openreach owns and maintains the physical network — the copper in the street, the exchange, the engineers in the vans. Providers buy access to it at wholesale rates and sell it on. A big retailer sells it with a retail margin, a call centre and a marketing budget baked into the price. We sell it at wholesale rates with a named account manager instead. Same line either way; the difference is what sits on top of it, and what that costs you every month.

How to switch — step by step

Switching provider on a phone line sounds like it should involve engineers, downtime and a day of dread. It doesn't. The line never moves — what transfers is the billing and the account. Here's the whole process:

• 1. Send us a recent bill. Or just your line numbers — either works. We price every line on it at wholesale rates and reply within one working day with the exact saving.
• 2. Say yes, and we do the legwork. We handle the transfer with the wholesale side from start to finish. No forms for you to chase, no ticket ping-pong — you have a named person managing it.
• 3. Your number stays put. You keep your existing number — the line it lives on isn't going anywhere, so there's nothing to port and nothing to re-print on the van.
• 4. The next bill is the wholesale one. Line rental drops to £13.99 a month, and your calls move to wholesale rates at the same time if you want them to.

Got several sites or a mixed estate of analogue and ISDN? Same process — send the bills for the lot and we'll come back with one quote across everything. See business phone lines for the full range of what we supply.

What changes — and what doesn't

That's the full list. There's no new socket, no new kit and no "migration" in any meaningful sense — which is exactly why the wholesale route works so well for businesses that just want the same service for less. The full detail is on what changes when you switch, and our call charges page covers the per-minute rates.

Who this suits — and the honest edge cases

If you want the same lines, cheaper: this page is for you. Analogue and ISDN lines move to wholesale rates and nothing else changes. It's the lowest-effort saving in telecoms.

If you're on ISDN: we'll happily take your channels to £13.99 each — but we'll also tell you the truth, which is that ISDN won't survive the January 2027 switch off. If your phone system supports it, we'll quote SIP trunks alongside, with an honest read on when the move is worth making.

If you're being pushed off copper: most providers are moving customers onto VoIP ahead of the 2027 analogue switch off whether they're ready or not. We're different — we can keep your copper line running until 2030, same line, same number, same kit, so you move when it suits you. And when you are ready, digital phone lines are the natural next step.

If your broadband rides on the line: it can stay there, and it's worth pricing at the same time — our business broadband runs on the same wholesale principle, from FTTC up to full fibre at 1Gbps.