I was considering having a rethink regarding my phone and broadband service providers.
I am currently with Uno on their 40/10 connection with TTB. My phone / voice is with BT.
My current monthly cost is £54 (for both).
Whereas previously I have migrated my BB purely as a result of poor performance, I can’t say that this time as Uno have been great. Been with then for 10 years on ADSL2 and for the last 2 years on fibre.
The occasional and rare outage sure but my fibre connection runs really good (down 37 / up 9 all the time) does not suffer from single thread download issues.
So my deliberations as to whether to move from Uno this time is one that is purely based on price considerations and of course this is of concern to me.
I would not want to go with any of the big 6 but rather with another niche player.
I have seen that some niche players eg Pulse8, IDNet, Zen, offer combined BB and telephone line rental for a much cheaper cost eg Zen 40/10 + phone line rental £30. If Zen’s call package (£6.50) is included then £36.50.
From my searches, I see that if I were to move to any of the above isps, I would be transferred to FMPF rather than my current SMPF (which I have always preferred).
So a couple of questions please.
1. If I migrated to FMPF would I retain my existing BT phone number? Searching on these forums is not completely clear. Some threads suggest a risk of loosing it.
2. I understand that if I were to move to FMPF, it would make any return to BT / SMPF more expensive but what about future isp to isp migrations. Struggling to understand if this would narrow my isp availability and / or if this would be more expensive. Plus if I would loose my phone number.
Many thanks for any info provided