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I'm in the same situation at the moment, even though I'm living in central frigging london! Its a new build flat and it's taking ages for BT to plumb us in to the rest of the grid (luckily the landlord is taking care of that)

Your best bet, if it's possible, is to get a landline with the post office, often they will connect you for free (if the property has ever been connected to BT before) and even if it's not then they charge £107 - still less than BT.... on top of that, their standard phone tariff is £11.75 p/m but on a 30 day rolling contract.

So that would be the phone line, and if you can get it, the best way of getting internet is with o2 home broadband (might be a problem if your living way out there) but their cheapest tariff is £7.34 p/m if your an o2 customer and £12ish if your not. Which is 8mb down and 1mb up and has a very good reputation, currently they are doing a deal where you get 2 months free and if you use quidco you can get £60 cashback... therefore in the best circumstances, you can effectively get 12 months o2 broadband for £13.40