| Brian A 2005-12-29, 5:45 pm |
| On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:53:10 -0000, "Stickems."
<Stickems.@last.invalid> wrote:
>Tell the tenant in your house that it is a condition that they do not change
>the phone number (put it in writing).
>Job done.
>
>"Adrian Auer-Hudson" <adrian_h_hudson@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1135879256.577781.81870@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>|
>| 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.
>| >
>| > 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.
>|
>| Yes Gavin,
>|
>| 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.
>|
>| Bring your ATA back to the UK, either stay with Broadband and VoIP or
>| transfer you number back to a telco.
>|
>| Hope this helps
>|
>| Adrian.
>|
There is another option that no one has mentioned yet. I can't
remember what it is called but it does have a BT product name. I think
it restricts the line to incoming calls only - except for 999 of
course. I think it worked out to about £3/month when I last looked at
it.
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