I am moving suburbs in Nelson (not very far).  Telecom have told me that keeping our landline number is not an option.

I've noticed previously that if you move businesses around within a city, Telecom are very helpful on number portability.  For our home account it's a flat no.

The reason given is that the exchange we are on  is 'hard wired' so the number cannot move with us. 

Am I being fed a line of BS?