Want to Leave BT Broadband but need landline

How can I leave BT to go with another broadband provider and keep my landline? Plusnet and Sky don't offer a landline?
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  • There are lots of companies still offering a landline option, it might be best to use a comparison site and enter the options you are looking for. 
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  • Hi,
    your existing landline will still work.
  • Majic
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    Hi,
    your existing landline will still work.
    So if I move Broadband to Plusnet, who can I have my landline with and can I still keep BT number?
  • littleboo
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    If you want keep a "landline", then you need to move your broadband to a supplier who also provides a phone service. Plusnet don't. You will get the next generation of phone service which works over the broadband connection and therefore requires mains power in your house to work
  • littleboo said:
    If you want keep a "landline", then you need to move your broadband to a supplier who also provides a phone service. Plusnet don't. You will get the next generation of phone service which works over the broadband connection and therefore requires mains power in your house to work

    Which by the end of 2025 will apply to us all as the public switched telephone network is being withdrawn.  

    The wholesale line rental "Stop sell" date has been passed, so no new lines and no takeovers should be possible at this point, unless on an exchange with an exception (in which case up to March 2024).

    Anyone concerned about the availability of mains power in their house may wish to buy a UPS (not the company that delivers stuff in brown vans) and plug their router into that.  Mine is, not that I have a voice service on my line.
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  • Hi,
    Majic said:
    Hi,
    your existing landline will still work.
    So if I move Broadband to Plusnet, who can I have my landline with and can I still keep BT number?
    might find something HERE.
  • iniltous
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    Do you mean you want to keep your landline number ?,
    if you leave BT , obviously the company you move to has to offer telephony ( not all do ) they would need to arrange the porting of the number from BT to themselves and there is a pretty good chance that the new phone service even if they port the number correctly, will a be an internet protocol (IP) phone service , so your phone instrument would plug into the router and use the your broadband connection to work, even if that’s still over the copper pair into your home
  • tacpot12
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    It's my opinion that every home in the UK is going to get a new home phone number as a result of the switch off of the analogue phone network, so you might as well get that new number as soon as possible. I've just moved to Sky  (actually switches next week) and will have a new home phone number for any phone I plug into the router. Better to bite the bullet now, and let everyone know your new number. 
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  • iniltous
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    Nonsense, the chances of not keeping your existing number when moving from BT PSTN to BT DV is minuscule, the overwhelming number simply take the existing number onto DV 
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