You don't always need a landline phone in your student house if most of your housemates get loads of free minutes on the mobile contracts. It can sometimes work out cheaper just to upgrade your mobile phone contract to get those vital free minutes - if this is what you're planning on doing try our mobile phone deal selector below to see if you can get a better deal.

If you are planning on paying for a landline as well first of all you need to work out how many people in your house will be splitting the cost. You can then work out if you'll be able to pay for it each month, and it will also help you to decide what deal is best - do you just need the landline for incoming calls or are you going to be phoning your friends and family for hours a day?

You are often locked into a 12 month contract so we've teamed up with a few companies to make it easier for you to find short-term contracts (so you're not still paying over the summer break) and to compare other features. There's a hell of a lot of hot student deals out there - it's often just hard to find them if you don't know where to look.