Number porting to GV - my experience
Rick:
Quote from: mdo77 on February 25, 2013, 12:20:03 pm
I guess I jumped the gun a little. Apparently the number was only half-ported from Time Warner at that point. Outgoing calls were working fine from the mobile phone but incoming calls were still getting routed to the Time Warner phone.
As of this morning, the cell phone was getting the calls routed to it and I was able to finally start to port the number to Google Voice.
In all, it took about 5 days for the port from Time Warner to T-Mobile prepaid to complete.
That's why you need to test both incoming and outgoing BEFORE you start the next phase.
JeffW:
Forgive me if the following question was addressed in a previous post -- simply don't have the time to go through 9 pages of posts on this issue. I recently hooked up my OBi and would like to port my landline # using the "T-Mobile method". When I check portability with the T-Mobile site, it gives the message that my landline # can't be ported. (BTW, it gives a "No" on every number I tried). My phone service is through Time Warner.
Question: If T-Mobile says it can't be ported, am I dead in the water? Is there another method that might work?
It's not that big of a deal if I can't. We rarely use our landline anyway (basically, just to receive telemarketing calls, ha-ha). Which is why I got the OBi, since I'd rather pay 0$ for phone service.
CoalMinerRetired:
I'm not sure there's a clear answer to your question one can give on here. A few pointers, though.
One point is VoIP phone numbers have different regulatory rules for porting than landline numbers. See here on DSL Reports for an old explanation. Note that was in 2005 and the FCC has since changed the rules to include VoIP numbers in "LNP", as I understand it not all of them and slightly different rules than apply to landline #s.
What I'd suggest is first, determine if GV works for numbers local to your telco switch. More exactly, local to the "telco switch" which serves your NXX prefix number (format NPA-NXX-1234). Search for bandwidth.com and google voice, and you'll get an explanation. Determine your NXX/prefix and telco switch from these two sources, 1 and 2.
If above looks doable, then see if there's an third party like T-Mobile that is the leapfrog provider you port your number to before porting into GV.
As you found out you can't go from Time Warner to T-Mobile. Can you port to anybody else? Are any of those anybody else entities that GV allows porting in from? The somewhat opaque list of what mobile providers who can port into GV is here.
SteveG:
I have a Time Warner land-line. It is portable to T-Mobile and is then portable from T-Mobile to OBI from what I've read. My question is at some point do I have to tell Time Warner I am dropping them or does the porting of the number to T-Mobile do that? Thanks in advance... Steve
JeffW:
@CoalMinerRetired -- I went and checked Sprint's portability checker and my landline is reported as port-able to Sprint. I probably should have checked that after my T-mobile attempt, but I assumed that the portability wasn't reliant on the carrier one is porting it to. Obihai's support pages direct one to T-Mobile so I went that direction off the bat. Anybody know why T-mobile won't port it, but Sprint will?
Since I have Sprint as my cell carrier, I assume they will likely help me port my landline to my Sprint account. Anyone have experience doing this with Sprint?
@Steve -- when I looked through Sprint's FAQ on the porting, they mentioned that the transfer will automatically deactivate the number with your old service provider, but they made it clear that you do NOT deactivate your account until the porting of the number has been completed. If your account with your old service provider is canceled before that happens, the number will no longer be available to transfer. I would assume, then, that once the porting has been complete, only then should you cancel your account with Time Warner.
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