Moving office - phones

[Experienced IT guy]

Hi We are moving office. My experience is not in this area. The new office we are moving to has its own range of phone nrs. We would like to keep our current number and thought we may be able to transfer it to an ip phone connection (so it can go with us wherever we go). Is this possible? what sort of costs are we involved in?

 

[KM-Tiger]

It's a while since I looked at this, but there should be up to date info on voipfone's website, £20 for the porting rings a bell (sorry!).

What I recall is that it's no problem if it's an analogue line, but difficult/impossible if it's ISDN.

 

[Experienced IT guy]

It currently an anolog line, we will have a broadband connection at the new offices, which we can plug some hardware in - but the actual decission on the office we choose may hing about this point

 

[PureIT]

yes you can definately port it over onto VOIP and keep your number. I've ported a few of my clients over when they moved offices.

 

[Experienced IT guy]

yes you can definately port it over onto VOIP and keep your number. I've ported a few of my clients over when they moved offices.

So we find a tame voip provider?

 

[MarcusMiller]

Hey, I have done this with Voipfone.co.uk. It was a few years ago but I ported in a few BT numbers and mapped them to VOIP extensions. You will need the kit, I use snom phones and voipfone will charge you a few quid a month but it is was simple enough from memory.

It was certainly less painful than when I tried to move phones with BT and the managed to leave me without phones or internet for two weeks due to some balls up their end!

Voipfone is pretty cool, coming from a bit of a telecoms background you get some pretty groovy functionality without any expensive kit.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Voipfone

Cheers
Marcus

 

[Experienced IT guy]

It was certainly less painful than when I tried to move phones with BT and the managed to leave me without phones or internet for two weeks due to some balls up their end!
Cheers
Marcus

two weeks - it was 3 months of BT sponsored disruption last time - never again!

 

[cjd]

Yes, you can move your numbers. Info on how here:

http://www.voipfone.co.uk/PB_Porting_Numbers.php

If you need to talk through how best to do all this, give us a call - 020 7043 5555

 

[leemason]

I recently did this for a customer who had an office in London and they were moving to Kent but wanted to keep their Central London numbers. Worked very well. I used Gradwell in that particular case as the VoIP service provider.

 

[Experienced IT guy]

Yes, you can move your numbers. Info on how here:
If you need to talk through how best to do all this, give us a call - 020 7043 5555

I tried to call but you are only open 9-5

 

[cjd]

Yup, sorry I had no idea it was gone 5 when I posted. But you can email anytime - we have 24 hour support for problems or enquiries.