Keep PSTN number

ElaineH

Need to switch broadband due to contact end and price hike. Aware PSTN coming to end, but not here yet. Can only find broadband only offers.  How do I keep landline number when switching to VOIP.?  

matelodave

There are several broadband suppliers who offer phone service and will transfer your phone number if you dont want to go to a dedicated VoIP provider - SKY, TalkTalk, BT, Vodaphone, Zen and I've no doubt several others.

I've been with BT, Vodafone and now Zen and each time my original PSTN phone number has transferred seamlessly.

dnpark38

matelodave said:

There are several broadband suppliers who offer phone service and will transfer your phone number if you dont want to go to a dedicated VoIP provider - SKY, TalkTalk, BT, Vodaphone, Zen and I've no doubt several others.

I've been with BT, Vodafone and now Zen and each time my original PSTN phone number has transferred seamlessly.

I agree done that myself but I recently was thinking about should I change provider and I too got the impression that they do not want to do "landline" phones.
Remember if power goes off so does the phone on fibre.

Neil_Jones

dnpark38 said:

matelodave said:

There are several broadband suppliers who offer phone service and will transfer your phone number if you dont want to go to a dedicated VoIP provider - SKY, TalkTalk, BT, Vodaphone, Zen and I've no doubt several others.

I've been with BT, Vodafone and now Zen and each time my original PSTN phone number has transferred seamlessly.

I agree done that myself but I recently was thinking about should I change provider and I too got the impression that they do not want to do "landline" phones.
Remember if power goes off so does the phone on fibre.

That's why we have mobile phones.

If you have a cordless telephone on an old school phone line and you have a power failure you still don't have a working telephone, you just have a handset that you can't use.  Yet when cordless telephones became mainstream nobody complained that they'd be useless in a power cut...

Anyway solutions are available should you be unfortunate enough to be without power, though if its off long enough anyway there will be other knock on effects.

SiliconChip

Neil_Jones said:

dnpark38 said:

matelodave said:

There are several broadband suppliers who offer phone service and will transfer your phone number if you dont want to go to a dedicated VoIP provider - SKY, TalkTalk, BT, Vodaphone, Zen and I've no doubt several others.

I've been with BT, Vodafone and now Zen and each time my original PSTN phone number has transferred seamlessly.

I agree done that myself but I recently was thinking about should I change provider and I too got the impression that they do not want to do "landline" phones.
Remember if power goes off so does the phone on fibre.

That's why we have mobile phones.

If you have a cordless telephone on an old school phone line and you have a power failure you still don't have a working telephone, you just have a handset that you can't use.  Yet when cordless telephones became mainstream nobody complained that they'd be useless in a power cut...

Anyway solutions are available should you be unfortunate enough to be without power, though if its off long enough anyway there will be other knock on effects.

There might not have been any complaints but it was obvious that they would be useless which is why I kept a corded phone to use in a power cut, particularly if it had been a major one that also took out power to the mobile masts. Once I'd been switched to VoiP that was no longer an option, and soon after that I ditched the landline altogether and now have 2 mobile phones on different networks just in case the primary one goes down (which it has a couple of times).

Dicentra

Find a Voip provider like Vonage and fill in their online form and they will move your number over, all done within two weeks. First you setup an account with the VoIP provider, you will get a temporary number until you transfer your landline number. You will need an adapter to plug into your router to connect your landline phones, Vonage provide this for free and others charge.