Porting BT call sign number?

Has anyone ported a BT call sign number over to VOIP or Sipgate in particular?

Im thinking of doing this but wish to keep the primary number and the BT account active. Sipgate say it is possible for a £20 fee, but from what I have read it will cease the BT account and any services on the line.

Any thoughts?

if you were to stop the Callsign service it wouldn't cease the line, so I don't follow why that would be the case with porting it to VoIP.

I ported a call sign number in the past, it didn't go as well as it should have.

I work in the VoIP industry and see ports go through every day, call sign ports certainly have a tendency to go wrong more than normal number ports.

It can certainly be done - best to be prepared for interruption on the numbers and potentially a loss of broadband for a time if all goes badly wrong.

My phone number (originally Bell Cable, then NTL, then Virgin Media) was ported to BT as a callsign, then moved to Sipgate.

BT insisted my VM number was the primary number so when I tried porting it, they cancelled the second number rather than move that to the primary. They then cancelled the primary, rather than re-instate the secondary as a primary.

I think you get the picture.

Be prepared for lots of hassle!

In reply to a post by john71:

Has anyone ported a BT call sign number over to VOIP or Sipgate in particular?

Im thinking of doing this but wish to keep the primary number and the BT account active. Sipgate say it is possible for a £20 fee, but from what I have read it will cease the BT account and any services on the line.

Any thoughts?

Have you managed to do this yet John? I would like to do the same thing and cannot afford to lose the primary number, or the call sign number for that matter.

In reply to a post by Olly232:

In reply to a post by john71:

Has anyone ported a BT call sign number over to VOIP or Sipgate in particular?

Im thinking of doing this but wish to keep the primary number and the BT account active. Sipgate say it is possible for a £20 fee, but from what I have read it will cease the BT account and any services on the line.

Any thoughts?

Have you managed to do this yet John? I would like to do the same thing and cannot afford to lose the primary number, or the call sign number for that matter.

No, I use the primary number for business and have a year free from O2 and a credit from them to place me in contract so cant afford to take the risk of being totally disconnected in error.

Appreciating this is a very old thread I'm trying to port both our landline (business) and call sign number to sipgate.

The challenge seems to be understanding how to position the port requests. The main billing number (MBN) is a single line service, so the normal way of taking multiple associated numbers at the same time doesn't stack up...

Current plan is that we'll attempt a port of the callsign number only so that the actual line (and it's associated 'calling feature') doesn't get terminated and the call sign number lost in the process. The main line has no broadband service, the key objective is to not loose either of the numbers!

I wonder if anyone has any lessons learned to share on whether this approach has worked in the past?