Number Port Success following FTTC to FTTP migration

Good Afternoon all,

I have been a long time lurker on these forums however I've recently ported my landline number following a FTTC to FTTP migration, I wanted to share my success story in porting my landline number.

Please note this is not a tried & tested method so it is not guranteed to work, I had already agreed with my ISP (EE) that I would lose the number as part of the migration to FTTP.

27th March - FTTP installed & live.
28th March - Order submitted to port the number to Andrews & Arnold VOIP.
4th April - Number ported sucessfully to A&A.
Present Day - FTTP still working & no early termination fees from EE.

Any questions please get in touch.

Regards,

Liam.

I’m guessing your FTTP is not with an Openreach based provider?

I did similar in 2019, moved my old Plusnet phone number to A&A VoIP when I had a new service installed from Virgin Media.

Based on:
" I had already agreed with my ISP (EE) that I would lose the number as part of the migration to FTTP."
I would assume Liam has upgraded to FTTP whilst staying with EE.

There are a couple of posts on the Plusnet forum that indicate it is possible to transfer a landline number to VoIP immediately after upgrading to FTTP.
One being:
https://community.plus.net/t5/Full-Fibre/Keep-my-pho...

My FTTP provider is still the same (EE) who are Openreach based.

Thanks for the link, does seem like there is a small window post migration. I wonder if the number going back into a pool to be reallocated/ported, I didn’t have to supply the account holders details (my wife) or rights to the number via an existing bill.

Regards,

Liam.

Did you request a port of the original number to EE? Or did you order the EE service without voice, or with a new phone number?

Originally I ported the number from AA FTTC then to BT, then to EE FFTC, then to AA VOIP once the EE FTTP was live.

In reply to a post by skandia2:

There are a couple of posts on the Plusnet forum that indicate it is possible to transfer a landline number to VoIP immediately after upgrading to FTTP.
One being: https://community.plus.net/t5/Full-Fibre/Keep-my-pho...

Good to know this is available, it must be relatively new.

In reply to a post by liambee:

Thanks for the link, does seem like there is a small window post migration. I wonder if the number going back into a pool to be reallocated/ported, I didn’t have to supply the account holders details (my wife) or rights to the number via an existing bill.

I simply not buy this 'short window pool' holding of the number. Demand for 'landline' numbers must have fallen off of a cliff in recent years, it's not like it was 25 years ago, with demand for huge lumps of DDI and Fax numbers being requested. I would imagine if you relinquish your landline number, it's never be reused.