Leo Vegoda said:
> A naïve question from someone who doesn't know much about telephone routing 
> follows? What happens if the business that originally provided the 
> transferred number closes its network or stops operations? Does that break 
> the new provider's service for the number?

Yes. One of the drivers for the OFCOM work was the collapse of Atlantic
Telecom - anyone who had ported away from them lost service, and for some
reason I forget BT couldn't just take the number block back.

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