Emails like this make me chuckle when we are the biggest VoIP provider in the country ;)
We typically don’t port numbers or use premium rate numbers in the way being requested on the PSTN for a variety of reasons - the biggest one being the ability to make inbound signalling work which requires a lot of effort for single numbers and causes billing and other challenges and a lot of these are mostly not within our control. And yes we’ve started to path to turn off PSTN. Neil. Sent from my iPhone > On 21 May 2018, at 15:26, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 21/05/18 11:24, David Derrick wrote: >> >> Why faff about getting the pretty number on the PSTN line? I assume >> the Tamar Telecom number is a VoIP one, why not use the VoIP service >> properly? Or port the number to a VoIP provider if it isn't. > > > I suspect, in theory, porting a number into BT is possible. I suspect, > in theory, it is possible without the broadband line being disconnected > in the process. You might even be able to migrate the broadband or > convert to FTTC in the future without a mess up. > > I suspect in practice, you are asking for something not done very often. > That nobody really knows how to do. And that it will give you hassle > forever. > > Why not just leave it on a forward to the existing PSTN number, and pay > the less than 1p a minute. (and hopefully a provider with no minimum > call charge). > > IMHO, you are much better having the number you really care about > sitting with a VoIP provider (as in, not BT). > > I bet with the right voice provider, you could even Carrier preselect on > outbound calls, and set the CLI to the one you want. Again, will cost a > little bit, but not much in the whole scheme of things. > > > I also have a view point. Ported numbers never seem to be quite as > reliable (for inbound calls) as a native number from your provider's (or > their preferred upstream) allocation. > > ***** > > Why did you order a BT-Net line? I presume not related to above? > > > Tim >
