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Standard User frogger2600
(newbie) Fri 19-Jun-26 12:21:07
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What happens if your VOIP company just closes one day?


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This is more a hypothetical but has happened and bound to happe again

You're a normal residential customer and you have an old landline voip number ported to a voip provider.

One day you wake up and find the phone no longer works and then find out they have shutdown/gone brankrupt/etc.

What would you have to do to try and get your number back? I know there is a 30 day period and it will probably go back to the original block phone number. But who would you contact to try and reclaim it?
Standard User jchamier
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Fri 19-Jun-26 18:05:35
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Re: What happens if your VOIP company just closes one day?


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In reply to a post by frogger2600:
But who would you contact to try and reclaim it?

Same as if a provider on a fixed line disappeared; try any new company see if they can reclaim, or contact Ofcom.

26 years of broadband connectivity since Sep 1999 trial - Live BQM
Standard User Michael_Chare
(knowledge is power) Fri 19-Jun-26 20:53:08
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Re: What happens if your VOIP company just closes one day?


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If the number was a BT number they might also have a record.

You could ask a provider to do an ORDI (Openreach Data Integrity) check.

Michael Chare


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