Number porting to GV - my experience
wyt168:
Quote from: johng on July 28, 2011, 08:47:46 am
Lastly remember that when you do the port with google your T-mobile account number that you give them is 1 + "your new T-mobile # (ie. the # you are porting)". T-mobile changes your account number from "1 + original T-mobile #" once the port is complete. Lastly right after you initiate the google port expect an immediate email saying there is an error with the port. You will need to go to google voice and it will bring you to a page where they want you to input your T-mobile prepaid pin #, and then it take ~24hrs to complete.
johng
Thanks for the clarification that the t-mobile account # is "1 + ported landline #" AFTER the porting is done, i.e. if your original pre-paid t-mobile # is xxx-xxx-xxxx and the land line # being ported is yyy-yyy-yyyy, your account # after the porting will be "1yyyyyyyyyy" instead of "1xxxxxxxxxx".
In fact, the help page on Obihai "Landline Porting to Google Voice" http://obihai.com/porttutorial.html states the exact opposite, i.e. they are saying that you should use the original t-mobile # for the pre-paid account #.
jazzy:
Long time ATT, SBC, Pacific Bell land line customer in the 415 with a legacy prefix that I wanted to keep. Followed the porting instructions, and my legacy prefix is now a GV number.
Monday – Activated a T-Mobile pre paid sim card on the internet. After verifying the number works incoming and outgoing, called T-Mobile porting department at 1-877-789-3106 and requested a port in from a land line.
Tuesday – At 5pm my ATT land line # was ported to the T-mobile cell phone. Verified calling in and out.
Wed – 7am logged into my GV account and requested the T-Mobile # be ported to my GV. The T-mobile account number is “ 1 (area code, number) for a total of 11 digits. Immediately after paying the $20 porting charge. I received an email, saying “ there is an error with the port ”. Just clicked the link in the email, and a screen will ask for your T-mobile prepaid PIN. Submit it, and you’re done.
Thurs – At 7am ( exactly 24 hours after porting request ), I received an email saying, porting was complete. My old ATT legacy number now is now my GV number.
To summarize, activated the T-mobile sim on a Monday, and Thursday porting was completed to GV. So now my Obi receives and makes calls using GV, and I rescued my legacy number!
When GV asks for your T-Mobile account number, it is the " the newly ported in number from the land line , not the number assigned when you first activate the sim card.
primetymepro:
I suppose that this could work with any carrier this read refers to AT&T whereas I'm in the process but via My existing carrier T-Mobile. I'll report back my experience and timeline...
How To Port Your Vonage Phone Number to Google Voice
by RONMALIBU on 2011/08/12
Vonage is a great service – VoIP for cheap with international calls thrown in – that’s why I selected it for my business line a few years back. Now I’ve switched to Skype and Google Voice, and this is the process to port from Vonage to Google Voice.
Port your Vonage number to AT&T. I chose AT&T as I already had a Go Phone which I give to international visitors. I did this in the AT&T store, and they took care of it all for me for a $25 sim card. Keep the receipt or make a note of your AT&T account number. This put me on a 3 month / 10c per minute plan so I could receive calls in the interim. The process took about 48 hours to complete.
Sign up for google voice, and select the option to port an existing number to google voice. There are a few disclosures about 3 potential days of lost SMS messages, and you pay a one time $20 porting fee. The trick here is finding your AT&T account number, which is not the same as your phone number. I threw away my receipt, so I had to call 611 from my Go Phone to talk to find it out.
Wait 24 hours.
Enjoy free call forwarding and google voicemail services. The switch cost me $45, and I no longer pay my $30 a month Vonage bill. It would have been cheaper to add a line to my existing cell phone service for a month (around $10 rather than $25), but this way kept everything simple for me, and simplicity goes a long way when you’re talking about transferring your business number and not losing calls!
rtalcott:
I just went from AT&T wireless to GV....it was smooth....only FYI is the AT&T/GV port took 48 hours and not the 24 that GV estimated.
rt
Dale:
I ported from ViaTalk to T-mobile on a $10 pay as you go set up. The ViaTalk account number is the same as your 11 digit phone number. (Note this means you should never let slip that you use ViaTalk to anyone who know your phone number if you think your number is worth stealing!)
Porting from T-Mobile to Google Voice to a few days. $20.
So total cost $30 to port a number. Funny how we have been paying number portability fees to telephone companies for years and we still have to fork out money to get it done... another reason I am glad to not be using a traditional telephone company.
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