Vonage and keeping phone number

scragend

Hi

A quick question if I may, if anyone has experience of this?

I currently have phone & broadband with Virgin Media. I am considering switching my phone to Vonage, so that I get unlimited landline calls and cheaper other calls.

I read on the Vonage web site that I can transfer my home phone number to them (from Virgin), but what I don't know is if I don't like Vonage for some reason or at some point in the future decide to leave them, can I take the number with me again, either back to Virgin or to another provider such as BT?

Has anyone come across this?

Thanks

Buzby

Depends on the carriers involved - a number of porting agreements are one-sided, and the number when released will always revert to the donating network operator if the transfer cannot be completed. VOIP carriers are especially fickle.