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[-Cappo-]

We're going to full fibre broadband shortly, and my ISP (Plusnet) doesn't offer a phone/VOIP solution with that. As the current plans are for all copper phone connections to cease by Jan 2027, my thoughts were that we may as well ditch the landline now and get used to that, not to mention beat the inevitable crush for services last-minute as the deadline approaches.

I very rarely use the landline at home but MrsC's maiden name was Ludd*, as was most of her family's, and although we discussed and agreed on ditching the landline, she's done a U-turn which SKS would be proud of and suggested that she'd like to retain the landline - and our phone number - in oder to remain in contact with her olds.

So I need to find a basic domestic VOIP provider who will accept a port of our existing number. Don't need anything fancy; in fact MrsC said she'd be happy with the VOIP phone just being there for people to call us and she'll use her mobile for outgoing calls, but we may as well have the option to call out over VOIP if necessary. I note that some of them come with an app to call out on the landline (similar to what the likes of Gamma Horizon offer, I guess).

Any recommendations then please for a cheap basic VOIP provider who will accept a port in of our number? I believe you can't port an existing copper line out until the fibre broadband is in, otherwise you'll lose both voice and data? So do I speak to a provider now and tee them up to port our number? There would be little or no point taking on a VOIP contract which provided a new "landline" number.

I've seen the likes of Andrews & Arnold who charge a £12 setup then £1.44 pcm, with calls on top. Are they any good? This seems the sort of service we need.

Any other suggestions/experiences?

TIA.

. * it wasn't really but it may as well have been!

Edited by -Cappo- on Friday 6th June 07:22

[Captain_Morgan]

Andrews & Arnold that’s all you need, I’ve got them and there fine.

Then it’s a call on a app on your mobile or a wireless phones / DECT phones.

[-Cappo-]

Captain_Morgan said:

Andrews & Arnold that s all you need, I ve got them and there fine.

Then it s a call on a app on your mobile or a wireless phones / DECT phones.

Great, thanks, I’ll speak to them then.

[wombleh]

Had Sipgate for a number of years here, just pay for calls. Although I'm not sure if they still offer that as their website only shows business packages.

[Paulsd]

When we moved to Trooli, I had our landline ported to Voipfone.

£6 per month and it works absolutely fine using the app on my phone. They also sell SIP gateways if you really want to keep a regular phone.

[.Adam.]

We are using Number People, kept our existing number, but we have the most basic package, so no free outgoing calls included . Think it costs us £5 every 3 months. We've had no problems, and they were helpful when I was setting it up.

Edited by .Adam. on Friday 6th June 13:39

[silentbrown]

Paulsd said:

When we moved to Trooli, I had our landline ported to Voipfone.

+1 for voipfone.

[BGARK]

I have taken our entire business phone system from £350 a month to £20 a month with:

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/dialpad.com

And it records, transcribes and does fancy AI stuff. Cant fault it so far.