>> I think it is actually an age related problem, most older folk do have landlines and would want to keep it.
I believe you may be right.. I havent mentioned it to my parents yet, because I initially suggested they used sky for their adsl... but that was back before SVBN... and I can damn well bet they are now on SVBN. They wont like it one little bit if they lose the phone number that theyve had for the past 35ish years.
Its bad enough atm trying to get mum to change her ancient mobile phone, despite me offering her a much better model for free.
But at the end of the day they use the landline for practically everything and mobile hardly ever.
TBH I wouldnt like a new phone no.. Im happy with my landline no.. I did swap it once soon after I moved in here, but that was because the police + BT advised me to do so.
Im quite lucky in that I get relatively few spam calls these days - although I get them on my mobile.
The fact is, its easy to transfer mobile numbers between networks, so I dont see why its such a big deal to do so for landlines... it just means that the LLU providers need to have the right records and software to be able to do so.
>> and we are ex-directory, registered with TPS/MPS
Funny enough, so are my parents, but they really are having a dreadful time atm particularly with the Indian type calls. They are not the sort of people to pass their phone no out willy nilly.. It only started in the past year... and I did hear a wee rumour about Skys DB being leaked.