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Adrian Auer-Hudson wrote:
|| gavinrobertsonuk@gmail.com wrote:
||| We're going to Australia for two years and renting out our house.
||| We'd really like to keep our current (BT) phone number on hold, as it
||| were, so that if we come back in two years time everyone who's known
||| it for the last fifteen years will be able to ring us on it again.
||| BT say they can only hold it for us for 6 months and then it goes
||| back into the big pot of numbers to be handed out to someone else.
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||| Do any of the wise people on this group know of any way round this? I
||| don't mind paying something for this, I'm not looking for it to happen
||| for free, but BT won't even give me that option. I guess there would
||| be a cost limit at which we'd think it uneconomical, though.
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|| Yes Gavin,
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|| I know a solution. Sign up for VoIP now. Take your ATA to Australia
|| and sign up for broadband there. Your friends will be able to call you
|| on your UK number. And, you will be able to call them for the cost of
|| Broadband and VoIP service. And you will have the other advantages of
|| Broadband.
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|| Bring your ATA back to the UK, either stay with Broadband and VoIP or
|| transfer you number back to a telco.
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|| Hope this helps
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|| Adrian.
Where are you?
It's not available - porting from a VoIP company to BT or vice versa, at the
moment.
My suggestion from 9.16 this morning seems to be the most robust. Not
intending to blow my own trumpet, so to speak, however I know it'll work.
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