Presumably this was an attempted port-in?
It's your previous provider you need to be asking if so - it's their number that you've requested to cancel. Technically the answer is no - that once the number is disconnected, it's released back into a pool and is no longer yours.
Some operators can recover it if you get onto them pronto, but there's no guarantee of this.
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