Number porting to GV - my experience
CoalMinerRetired:
For any number porting, you never need to and never should cancel your phone line or your phone account. By definition a port takes cares of that.
Reference: http://www.npac.com/number-portability and http://www.fcc.gov/guides/portability-keeping-your-phone-number-when-changing-service-providers
A bundled VoIP phone line on a Time Warner or a Comcast cable package or a FioS package might be a special case if it means you are opting out of a bundled deal. Time Warner or Comcast might see it as a excuse to up your rate on the remaining TV and Internet, but if that is less then zero cost phone service you're obviously better off.
> Anybody know why T-mobile won't port it, but Sprint will?
It's related to interconnection agreements and points of presence in the telco switch "premises" where your phone number was "born." T-Mobile probably doesn't contract with any of the third party providers and your number cannot port to T-Mobile.
tmogv:
so.. got my # ported to T-mobile but it says 0.00 in the account bal.
Do I need to add $ before porting to GV ?
lhm.:
Probably not, but why chance the account being cancelled and losing your ported number. Add $10 dollars as insurance. Better safe than sorry.
IMHO
Rick:
Quote from: tmogv on March 06, 2013, 10:36:49 am
so.. got my # ported to T-mobile but it says 0.00 in the account bal.
Do I need to add $ before porting to GV ?
Many SIMs come with 10 minutes on them, which is enough. As I recall, you need to receive 1 call. If you have zero minutes, you'll need to do the $10.
CoalMinerRetired:
Quote from: tmogv on March 06, 2013, 10:36:49 am
so.. got my # ported to T-mobile but it says 0.00 in the account bal.
Do I need to add $ before porting to GV ?
The above two responses are correct.
New T-Mob SIM cards will have a 10 min ($3.37) balance. We all assumed you did this onto a new SIM card. But you didn't actually say that. So if you ported onto an account or SIM that cannot receive a call (one call of less than one minute) the GV port will never go through during the one-call verification step (where on the GV porting screens you are told to enter a random code into a call that GV makes to your t_mob phone).
To add one more story to this thread. I ported a distant relatives long-held Verizon landline phone number to T-Mobile over the weekend. Used one of the 10-minute pre-paid SIM cards which I previously bought for $.99.
The SIM Card packaging said "Initial $3.34 value". When completing the port on T-Mobile's website, after it validated the number and at the very end (Step 5, I saved some screen shots) it showed "Fund your account."
The choices were 'Pay with refill card, pay with credit/debit card, or pay with electronic check. There was no 'continue' or 'you're done now', IMO it was somewhat sneaky and misleading in that they want you to throw a few more dollars into your account. Even though I did a few of these ports to T-Mob already, it was not quite clear if the port was accepted or not, it seemed like they did this on purpose, purposely vague to get you to add some funds.
I chose to wait it out and see if the $3.37 value (which you'll note was never acknowledged or mentioned) was 'in there' or not. Started the port late Thu evening and it took until early Monday morning to get the two text messages "Welcome to T-Mobile" and "Congratulations, your phone number has been transferred..."
Only after I created an account was I able to view the balance, and see the $3.37. Since I didn't see the acknowledgement text message(s) by Friday evening, over the weekend and on impulse I saw a $10 T-Mobile Refill Card and bought it, thinking if the port doesn't go through I'll try again and add the $10 at the end.
Even with all the above, T-Mobile is still the best deal out there for porting a land line number IMO. SIM cards are $0.99 (I thought I saw some for free the other day) and include 10 minutes, the ports go through in 24 to 48 hours (evidently weekends stop the clock), and porting into GV is -- has been for me -- without issue.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page