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
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|
| 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.
|

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