Number porting to GV - my experience
chartbear:
Thanks for your responses. Guess I'll just set up my cell number with Google voice and let friends and family know.
ingobike:
I want to port my commercial cell number to GV
I have already ported my land line to my wife's GV account. I first ported it to Tmobile and then successfully transferred it to GV.
My company has authorized the porting of my ATT corporate cell number.
GV currently says I can not port it.
Tmobile says I can port it.
If I port it first to a personal Tmobile cell phone, what is the likelihood that GV will allow me to port it to GV?
Thanks, Randy
Pepi:
Paid the 20 bucks to have my landline piped over. Worked for awhile and now it cuts out on outgoing signal. If I use my second GV phone number it is fine. Not really excited about porting :-\
Rick:
Quote from: Pepi on February 13, 2013, 06:32:16 pm
Paid the 20 bucks to have my landline piped over. Worked for awhile and now it cuts out on outgoing signal. If I use my second GV phone number it is fine. Not really excited about porting :-\
That has nothing to do with porting. I suggest you start a new thread in the correct section explaining your problem, after examining the settings for each account on your OBi, AND trying both lines directly from your PC. If the settings match, and the PC calls work perfectly, then check the phone that is plugged into the OBi or if you're using different phones swap them.
Edit - just saw you did post this elsewhere. Copying the answer to there.
euclidobi:
Welp. I finally ported my number from TimeWarner -> Tmobile -> Google.
It took about a month, although it could have been done faster if I were more vigilant in pursuing the problems that came up.
One note about porting from TimeWarner to Tmobile. My port request kept getting cancelled. Customer service on both sides were absolutely 0 help. They both claimed the problem was on the other end. And neither could give me much info on why the request kept getting cancelled. After the 3rd cancelled port request and a lot of back and forth with both providers, I looked online and found something about the pin being the Time Warner customer code (previously, I had told Tmobile I had no Time Warner pin). So I tried one last time and gave Tmobile my Time Warner account number, and customer code as they appeared on my bill. About 3 days later, got a text on my Tmobile phone saying that porting was successful.
All in all, it cost me about $40 to do the port.
$1 for the Tmobile sim.
$8 to get my temporary cell phone sim unlocked
$10 to add some minutes to the phone so I could verify the number with Google voice
$20 to port number to Google voice
Plus the cost of the Obi202 and wireless adapter.
Still worth it to get as far away from Time Warner as I can.
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