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Want to keep your landline number after your copper line is cancelled in South Africa? Port it before cancelling your line

Most South Africans know that Telkom is already busy phasing out their copper lines (which ADSL and landline phones operate on). What Telkom usually does is immediately offer a LTE based handset with the same number which operates like a landline phone.
But if you have ADSL you'll want to move to ideally fibre or if not available then an LTE-A Internet service. On both the fibre and the LTE-A service you can operate a Voice-Over-IP phone service (you need to consider if your cellphone is not just good enough to use then you would not worry with this VoIP service). But if you want to keep your old Telkom landline number to use on VoIP then you must port that number while you still own it (not after you have cancelled your landline).
So to do this, you register with a VoIP provider and arrange through them to do the porting. It takes a few days and then your old number is available for you on your new service. https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e106684d7d42c51df25d5902d71ecd36642