Not if you want ADSL as it runs over phone lines, but some ISPs will do provide a "data only" phone line and charge you appropriately.

I'm about to move away from BT and have Andrews and Arnolds provide our phone line for £10/month instead of the £18/month BT want on their cheapest plan.

To go totally wires free, if you live in a region with good 4G coverage, you could get a 4G modem and data plan from a mobile operator. Of course, that will have monthly running costs of their own.

Rossburton, nope we live in the northern hills best I can get on internet at moment is 3/4mb with fibre not available to my house. So the 4g option may not work either

Virgin do cable broadband separately, don't they?

Local wifi if it's available.

Requires line of sight between transmitters and receivers, so could be a problem in hilly areas. Having said that, it's not too great in flatter areas either, as trees can disrupt the signals, but good bandwidth available in the right circumstances.

Virgin definitely do supply broadband without a landline. I have this for my internet, Freesat box for tv and mobile for phone calls.

It's worth asking round neighbours if anyone is on a network that gets 4g or getting a SIM from all the main networks and testing it yourself. I lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere earlier this year, everyone used Vodafone as it was the only one and even that was only upstairs, in my house.
I'm currently using a tp-link m7350 mifi box at home with a data only SIM, which works pretty well, you can also stick it in your pocket and use a tablet on the go as if it was a 4g tablet. Only downside is the data cap, so no streaming, even have to think twice about watching a vid on youtube. You can get deals with more data, of course.

Another +1 for Virgin cable - freesat for TV and VOIP for the house phone.

We've got BT fibre to the property still have to pay line rental for a phone line we don't use.

One issue with taking the phone only option is that you get bent over if you need to call customer services. If you've got the landline you can dial 150 or whatever rather than pay £1 a minute to listen to hold music.

4g usually has data limits - I don't think there is an unlimited option just yet.

I'd like just unlimited reasonably fast internet with no phone or TV tagged on but no one seems to offer that..

4g usually has data limits - I don't think there is an unlimited option just yet.

Also on Virgin cable - quite pricey, but I've only ever had to call (touch wood!) the customer service line once in 5 years. Been very reliable.
No phone line and TV with Sky.

Tried to go phone free with last Virgin contract, barely worth it, they price it so you hardly save anything if you ditch the phone.

If you can wait a bit I'd see what happens in the market. I'm pretty sure there's a few providers looking to go this route.

Yes and no.

Vodafone offer Internet without line rental, they're pretty cheap too as they're just joining the market - but in truth, the line rental is still there, it's just billed differently, they're still paying OpenReach to provide the infrastructure and passing that on to you, they just make it part of the headline figure.

Virgin are the same but different, they provide most of their own infrastructure, but it's still got to be installed and maintained so an element of the price you pay goes towards that.

Line Rental, no Line Rental, it’s all horse trading really, it’s only the full cost that counts. Saying you don’t want to pay it is like saying you’d like to buy a car, but only pay for the production costs and not the design costs, you can’t.

the prices quoted going forward should be inclusive of line rental as a result of a recent ofcom ruling. they figured customers were being misled by the whole 'broadband for £5 +linerentalinsmallprint' thing.

Depends on how much time you're willing to spend to hunt about for offers. I managed to get a intro offer from plusnet that was 18months with no line rental, but then the price escalates and I'll have to do the exercise all over again