Hmmmmmmmmm. I tried to port our landline phone number from the old house to Flextel, so I can point it at their voicemail service and get messages as WAV files by email, but they say they can't accept porting orders at the moment because of "a revised industry process which is having teething problems and we do not feel confident that we could, in good faith, take on the port without the risk of loss of service". I'm guessing that's OTS/TOTSCo, the one @RevK :verified_r:'s running commentary a while back was not giving anyone any faith in. I haven't yet asked them whether, by "loss of service" they mean a risk of actually losing the number, or just having an outage on the number. So, I wonder what to do now. Port elsewhere? I'd like to get the number virtualised at some point soon. Can any provider port a number in the UK these days without risk? Hmmm!