@corringham
"So it is quite possible for the ISP to take enough interest to avoid issues (either cutting off the careline device, or refusing to migrate a customer because they have one). In fact I'd suggest it is essential that ISPs do this - otherwise there is going to be a lot of last minute issues to resolve."
Indeed.
I wonder how refusing to transfer at this point leaves people who DO have landline phones and careline devices?
1. Landline phone is a Plusnet service
Plusnet will have to deal with this at some point - they can't just cut the phone and (potentially) leave users stranded.
2. Landline phone is not a Plusnet service
I guess in this case Plusnet will be leaving the other supplier to sort it out. Not sure what that means for customer's existing PN digital services.
Perhaps Plusnet will firstly proceed (as now?) on the basis of 2. Then, in the end, when everyone left is (hopefully?) a Plusnet landline phone customer, deal with them all in a batch?
[A little bit of politics!]
This does all seem to have the feel of 'A Great British Mess' - seemingly largely as a consequence of past political policies of 'competition' and 'liberating' the communications industry.
I may no longer have a landline telephone line - but I still own a wired telephone with a blue Mercury button on it!
