It appears I am in for quite a wait for FTTP here, so I've decided to at least take the first step and port my landline number to VoIP.
Personally, if it were just up to me I'd be happy to kill it and just have 2 x AAISP lines, however as our number is a nice easy one and my wife uses it a long to ring her mum - there is a desire to keep the number.
The huge upshot of this for me from a technology perspective is that I now have to buy a VoIP setup (I love telephony technology and making it work but ironically don't make many phone calls personally). So coming today is a Gigaset base + 2 x phones so I can get that going. We support VoIP at work - so this only helps me from an understanding as I'll be using the same platform as we do there too. Once my number has successfully ported (January) then I'll be looking to move my 2nd line (as it'll be ceased) and having bonded AA lines...
I've ported my number to A&A so it seems I have many choices in what to do. In the meantime I already have a sipgate account and a number on that, so I can use that to experiment with before porting my actual number in.
Anyone else done anything similar?