Musing out loud here. Some of you have done this already, but here's my two cents:
I've been a hanger-on of my original phone landline, as it's always been the most reliable thing in times of outages and in quality of service. This time, however, it's the one service that still hasn't been restored since the May 15 storms. Power and cable took less than a week to be rebuilt, and this delay is a first for the phone lines. Just talked to them and they're still so swamped with the general outage problem that the soonest I'll see a technician again is Friday.
This got us to thinking. Normally, we'd resign ourselves to waiting since we do have our cell phones and reception is much more reliable here at the house than it used to be. But we also have internet voice service as part of the Xfinity package, the quality is excellent, and that voice line is going largely unused. In discussing the possibility of dropping the expense of the traditional landline, we all agreed that our one hangup (sorry, but we don't allow groaning here) was the prospect of losing the phone number itself. I've had it for 29 years, since moving here from L.A., Kristi and Nathan have now had it for a number of years, and "everyone" knows it, so it would seem sad and traumatic to drop it. But I've also checked with Xfinity, and the number is totally eligible for porting to their system. It just takes a few business days once we give them the okay on it. So it's very likely this will happen.