I think I’d try porting it anyway and see what happens. I’ve had one success with this where the number was dropped by the customer-facing company, but it was still with Twilio, and they let it go.
On Jul 9, 2026 at 10:15:25 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I've run into a situation I've never dealt with before, and it's > personal... > > My dear old mother has had a phone number in the 509-427 prefix for about > 50 years now. > > It's survived all the US West, Qwest, Embarq, Century Link, Lumen, > whatever changes over the decades...and finalle ended up taking a deal from > her ISP (a CLEC) to bundle her phone/internet . > > This all worked out pretty well until a few year or so when the ISP was > sold to new management and service tanked. They've had several multi-day > and even a multi-week outage. > > Fast forward to a month ago, and my mom decided to sign up for Starlink > and cancel her old DSL bundle. Being 80 years old, she had no idea her > "home phone" was linked to her DSL service....and as luck would have it, > the day after she cancelled she ended up having a minor stroke. > > When I realized her home phone was disconnected, I asked her to call her > former ISP and see if they could recover and just port out the number...my > intent being to attach it to my existing infrastructure and simply forward > calls to her cell phone. > > Her ISP said "we released the number 2 weeks ago, there's no way to get it > back". > > I know I've seen numbers get recovered before...but since I'm not a CLEC > or anything other than just a guy who helps support a handful of VoIP > installs, it's beyond me if it's possible or how I could get the number > back. > > I also seem to recall ~8 years ago that the local switch didn't support > number portability and it doesn't show up as having any numbers available > if I try to acquire a number out of the "STEVENSON WA" area. > > Am I out of luck? > > Thanks, > > -A > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list -- [email protected] > https://lists.voiceops.org/postorius/lists/voiceops.voiceops.org/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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