How to avoid switching land-line business phone number when moving ?

Delphine Cajka: use another phone company.

Lizzette Wendroth: keep the old number active, and have it forwarded to the new.orget your phone service from another supplier, such as the cable TV company, then have your number ported over to the cable service.orget a cell phone, have the old number ported over to the cell phone. Then, after you are established in the place, port the cell number over to the land service.be glad you have these options, 10 years ago, you would not be able to do this.If Encino and Woodland Hills is served by the same phone company, they should be able to port the numbers to the new location....Show more

Voncile Slaubaugh: This has been an ongoing trend in my area. We are just one notch away from doing it ourselves. We don't subscribe to long distance service anymore. We use the cell phone for that. It's a lot cheaper. I believe that you might be able to subscribe to Internet service only on a land line. Call your phone company. A nati! onal CP service will cost you about $75 a month for 700 minutes. AT&T has rollover, so for us it the best. Verizon also has a good national service. The only disadvantage is that CPs don't work well when we're having hurricanes on the Gulf Coast and always the problem of keeping the cell phone charged. We were out of electricity for six days for Gustav and could only charge with car charger and that was not good because we couldn't get gas. However, save some money. Go for it....Show more

Idell Mulliniks: 1

Gertrude Darke: 2

Lorine Helwick: Move the phone number from the wireline to a VOIP provider. You can then locate your VOIP terminal units, or even phones, in your new location no problem.