Moving to FTTP and keeping landline number

Hi,

We're currently with Talk Talk on FTTC and would like to move to FTTP.

Can you keep your landline number on FTTP?

I've read elsewhere that it's possible that BT won't keep the copper line.

Thanks

Paul

You can keep the copper for the time being anyway if you want to continue paying £20/month line rental.

After I got FTTP, I ported my landline to VoIP with Andrews & Arnold for £1.20/month and cut the copper (not literally, I hasten to add...).

(Though your FTTP provider may offer a voice service, if you want to keep everything with the same provider.)

In reply to a post by shortshrift27:

After I got FTTP, I ported my landline to VoIP with Andrews & Arnold for £1.20/month and cut the copper (not literally, I hasten to add...).

So who provides your FTTP?

Cerberus

Sure. Do the porting *after* your FTTP service is all installed, up and running, so that any number porting from the landline to VoIP, doesn't inadvertently cease the FTTC service before time.

In reply to a post by shortshrift27:

Cerberus

But how do suppliers such as BT, that also provide phone services behave?

In reply to a post by paul_liverpoolfc:

We're currently with Talk Talk on FTTC and would like to move to FTTP.

Can you keep your landline number on FTTP?

Talktalk's Openreach-based FTTP service doesn't include any voice service. (Presumably the same applies to their Cityfibre and UFO services, but I don't know for sure)

If you install FTTP and simultaneously terminate the FTTC and its linked phone service, you'll lose your number.

If you run FTTP and FTTC in parallel, you then have a number of options for transferring the phone service and cancelling the FTTC. Transferring the phone number to a VOIP provider will trigger the cancellation of your old phone line *and* the FTTC service linked to it.

If you want to go this route, you need to be very clear with Talktalk at the time of ordering FTTP that they should keep your FTTC service running, not cease it. They might also be able to sell you a voice-only service on copper, but it will be expensive.

In reply to a post by paul_liverpoolfc:

I've read elsewhere that it's possible that BT won't keep the copper line.

It varies. In some cases they'll keep the copper line with dialtone, and in some cases they'll move you to Digital Voice, where the voice service is provided through the router they supply. You don't get to choose.

Sky provide voice through the router.

Zen will sell you a voice service on their FTTP (presumably through the router as well), although charge extra for it.