Cancel the landline phone but keep the number?

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Random question, I know.

My grandmother died a little over a week ago, and I'm moving into her house.

I thought I'd be hired as a full-time teacher this year, but I wasn't, so I'll be substitute teaching again. $100/day, and there isn't an opening every day.

So I need to cut down on the house bills.


I don't need a landline, I have a cell phone... but my grandmother was the last of her 7 siblings, and her phone number is one that everyone in the family knows. When someone wants to get in contact with someone else in the family, they call my grandma's house, she's kept good track of where everyone is living (her nieces and nephews, and now including my sister, have really spread out: Rhode Island, California, Nevada, Florida, Indian, North Carolina, New Zealand, Poland, etc.).

I'd like to have the landline number just in case, but it might not be worth the $35/month.

I would like to cancel it for now... but maybe next year, when I'm hopefully hired full-time, be able to use that same phone number again.
. . . is there a way to do this?

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You might be able to change your cell phone number to it. If you have T-Mobile, they have an option to have more than 1 number on a single cellphone.