12 month contracts?

All the Infinity offers advertised online are fixed 18 month contracts. That simply doesn't work in conjunction with fixed 12 month line rental saver as the overlap effectively means a 3-year lock-in. That's simply not acceptable.
Can one achieve a 12 month Infinity contract by talking to a person?
TIA

It may be that by the end of 12 months ofcom have a rule that prevents a bundling requirement of telephone and broadband.  They could have been more awkward and had 17 month broadband contracts; then it would have taken 17 years before the contracts coincided again.

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