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What is “WLR3 analogue line rental”, and why are you paying for it?
Business phone and broadband bills are written for the industry, not for you. Most contain at least one charge nobody at your organisation can explain — often for a service set up years ago by someone who has since left.
Paste your charge lines and get back what each one actually is, whether it recurs, and the questions worth putting to your provider.
We do not tell you what anything should cost. We tell you what it is and what to ask.
Here is what it does
Three lines from a real-looking bill, and what the decoder returns for each. No email needed to read this — it is here so you can judge whether the tool is worth your address before giving it.
WLR3 Analogue Line Rental x4 58.00
Affected by the 2027 switch-off
Line rental (copper) · charged every bill
Rental of a traditional copper phone line. This is the service being switched off nationally on 31 January 2027.
- What is this line physically connected to?
- What is your migration plan for it, and by when?
Carrier Pre-Selection call routing 0.00
Carrier pre-selection · charged every bill
An arrangement where calls are routed to a different provider from the one renting you the line. Often set up years ago and forgotten.
- Is this still doing anything?
- Which provider is the call traffic going to?
Sprocket adjustment widget 9.99
Not recognised · unclear
We could not match this to a standard charge type. That does not mean it is wrong — it may just be worded oddly. The decoder says so rather than guessing.
- Ask your provider to explain this line in plain English.
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What it deliberately will not tell you
Whether you are paying too much. That depends on your contract, your usage, your term and what you were promised at the time — none of which is on the bill. Any tool claiming to spot an overcharge from line items alone is guessing, and a confident guess about your money is worse than no answer.
Whether a charge is wrong. It will tell you which charges are commonly misunderstood and what to ask. The answer to that question is what tells you whether something is wrong.
If several lines turn out to be things nobody can explain, that is normally the point to get someone to look at the contract itself. That is what our free audit is, and there is no obligation attached to it.