13 Mar 2024 10:00 AM
I switched to YouFibre before Christmas and when we left Sky they deactivated our phone line. We need our phone line activated again so that YouFibre can port our number across to them. I need to talk to someone at Sky about doing this.
13 Mar 2024 10:13 AM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out moreSo far as I'm aware, even if Sky were to reactivate your old line for you (I think it could only be done by you signing up to a broadband/phone subscription which would be pointless) they wouldn't be able to retrieve your old number.
13 Mar 2024 10:14 AM - last edited: 13 Mar 2024 10:15 AM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out more@Ells I'm afraid you're not talking to Sky customer services, I also doubt they can simply reactivate your line just to port a nunber, it's too late for that to happen. You've lost your number now as Youfibre should have requested the port at the time they setup your service.
Once a line is deactivated the number it used to have will be recycled and returned to the number pool, it can't be retrieved.
14 Mar 2024 05:46 PM
Once a provider has ceased the service they cannot recover the number by turning the line back on, it would be a new number only
your new provider should have applied to transfer the number in December when the service was switched and if not had 31 days to cease the service and reorder with a port request to recover the number as per ofcoms new guidence
as it now match the number is now gone and most likely waiting to be reused by the original owner of the number
14 Mar 2024 08:15 PM
Thank you everyone, have now sorted it and have a working phone line.
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