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MovedGoalPosts · 08-01-2005, 21:12

As far as I'm aware, assuming your phone number is currently based on a geographic exhange such as 01234 and you are staying in that same area of 01234 you shoudl be able to move telco retaining that same number. Effectively your phone number is issued by the telcosof BT, ntl, Telewest (and one or two small local telcos). Bulldog and others may work by unbundling the local loop, but even so the same provision of porting the phone number is retained if you stay on that same geographic area.

There is a probablility that the system won't be quite fast enough in moving your number from one telco's network to another. If so you might end up with a temporary number for a few weeks so at least you have a phone service, with the inevitable interruptions in phone and any other telco based service as things are switched.

08-01-2005, 21:12	#5
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 62 Posts: 15,868	Re: Retaining cable phone number As far as I'm aware, assuming your phone number is currently based on a geographic exhange such as 01234 and you are staying in that same area of 01234 you shoudl be able to move telco retaining that same number. Effectively your phone number is issued by the telcosof BT, ntl, Telewest (and one or two small local telcos). Bulldog and others may work by unbundling the local loop, but even so the same provision of porting the phone number is retained if you stay on that same geographic area. There is a probablility that the system won't be quite fast enough in moving your number from one telco's network to another. If so you might end up with a temporary number for a few weeks so at least you have a phone service, with the inevitable interruptions in phone and any other telco based service as things are switched.