Number porting to GV - my experience
CoalMinerRetired:
Quote from: Rick on March 26, 2013, 05:48:21 am
Most everyone uses T-Mobile or AT&T for porting. However, right now you can get a Verizon Wireless Prepaid Samsung U365 phone for $9.99 that says it includes $10 in airtime (noted in one of the reviews). For $9.99 this is hard to beat to port to GV. http://bit.ly/ZooFdv
That is a very good deal for porting purposes. Not sure if or how AT&T supplies new SIM cards, though? If you do multiple ports you'll want to factor in the cost of additional SIMs.
To date, the $0.99 SIM card from T-Mobile combined with a $19.99 phone (Nokia 1616, think CVS, Rite Aid, grocery stores, etc.) hits the sweet spot for when you port multiple lines, as in friends and family. That AT&T phone could be the new lowest cost approach.
Rick:
Quote from: CoalMinerRetired on March 26, 2013, 09:23:09 am
Quote from: Rick on March 26, 2013, 05:48:21 am
Most everyone uses T-Mobile or AT&T for porting. However, right now you can get a Verizon Wireless Prepaid Samsung U365 phone for $9.99 that says it includes $10 in airtime (noted in one of the reviews). For $9.99 this is hard to beat to port to GV. http://bit.ly/ZooFdv
That is a very good deal for porting purposes. Not sure if or how AT&T supplies new SIM cards, though? If you do multiple ports you'll want to factor in the cost of additional SIMs.
To date, the $0.99 SIM card from T-Mobile combined with a $19.99 phone (Nokia 1616, think CVS, Rite Aid, grocery stores, etc.) hits the sweet spot for when you port multiple lines, as in friends and family. That AT&T phone could be the new lowest cost approach.
There is no SIM for a Verizon phone unless it's a 4g phone, so it's either one and done or you'd have to then pay to buy some minutes and reactivate it if you want to port more than one line.
Rick:
Quote from: mozof2 on March 27, 2013, 07:57:15 am
Quote from: Rick on March 23, 2013, 07:32:09 am
Quote from: mozof2 on March 23, 2013, 07:28:32 am
I have a T-mobile sim card, but do not want to purchase a t-mobile phone. I do not mind purchasing the at&t phone for $15. Are you saying the two services are interchangeable? (ie.. could I used the tmobile sim card in the at&t phone without unlocking it?)
I just don't want to put anymore money into this if at all possible. (ie purchasing an at&t phone AND service for it.)
Thanks for your help.
No! The AT&T Go Phone is locked to AT&T. You buy it, put on minutes if it doesn't come with it, and you're done. AT&T will not unlocked a brand new Go Phone with no usage.
Okay, I did purchase a go phone and minutes, have successfully ported my landline from AT&T residential to the wireless phone, now, when I try to port to GV, I am getting an email that says Your request to port XXX-xxx-xxxx has encountered an error. It is not accepting my account number as simply my 10 digit phone number, and since I am using a pre paid phone number, I do not have a name or ssn attached with it to fill in the blanks on the GV form. Any help would be appreciated.
Have you done ANY of the reading on how to do this before you started? You need to call AT&T customer service to get your account number.
mozof2:
Quote from: chaiwan2000 on June 16, 2011, 11:20:56 pm
I lived in Bay Area, CA and recently ported my land line number to GV successfully. Just want to share my log here, hopefully it can demystify this process a bit.
First, I go to http://www.t-mobile.com/switch/default.aspx to make sure my land line number is eligible to transfer.
Then I started out with a T-mobile prepaid SIM card for $6.99 which I purchased online. Plus tax, it is $7.64 shipped. I got 10 minutes talk time.
Day 1 (evening): Received the package from T-mobile. Follow the instructions and activate that SIM card. Provided a PIN # of my choice and in return I got a new phone number (408-xxx-yyyy). Put that SIM in one of my mobile phone and make sure this number actually works.
Day 2 (morning): Called T-mobile’s activation dept (1-800-937-8997) and requested them to port my land line number to my prepaid SIM. I need to provide my AT&T account number to T-mobile for this.
Day 3 (morning): Received a SMS from T-mobile at 7:58am telling me that the porting is done. Called both ways and confirmed it is working.
Day 3 (lunch time): Login to my Google Voice account and request the porting at 12:22pm. Google charges $20 for this, payable via Google Checkout. Also, I need to provide my T-mobile account number and PIN to Google. A T-mobile agent told me that, for prepaid SIM, the account number is usually 1+mobile number. You may want to double check with T-mobile if you're not sure. Therefore, in my case, it is 1-408-xxx-yyyy. PIN is the one I created on Day 1. Part of the Google activation process is for Google to make a call to your mobile number, and you need to enter a 2-digit code that they provided to complete the validation process. This is where your 10-minute talk time becomes useful.
Day 4 (morning): Received an email from Google saying that their porting is done. Just tried calling both ways and it seems to work so far.
This is just my personal experience and for sure, YMMV. Good luck and have fun with Obi110.
This was an excellent step by step post. Thank you for sharing. Since the t-mobile devices were more expensive, I did not go this route, but appreciate the effort you put into making this whole process as easy as possible on others.
mozof2:
Quote from: Rick on March 27, 2013, 08:01:38 am
Quote from: mozof2 on March 27, 2013, 07:57:15 am
Quote from: Rick on March 23, 2013, 07:32:09 am
Quote from: mozof2 on March 23, 2013, 07:28:32 am
I have a T-mobile sim card, but do not want to purchase a t-mobile phone. I do not mind purchasing the at&t phone for $15. Are you saying the two services are interchangeable? (ie.. could I used the tmobile sim card in the at&t phone without unlocking it?)
I just don't want to put anymore money into this if at all possible. (ie purchasing an at&t phone AND service for it.)
Thanks for your help.
No! The AT&T Go Phone is locked to AT&T. You buy it, put on minutes if it doesn't come with it, and you're done. AT&T will not unlocked a brand new Go Phone with no usage.
Okay, I did purchase a go phone and minutes, have successfully ported my landline from AT&T residential to the wireless phone, now, when I try to port to GV, I am getting an email that says Your request to port XXX-xxx-xxxx has encountered an error. It is not accepting my account number as simply my 10 digit phone number, and since I am using a pre paid phone number, I do not have a name or ssn attached with it to fill in the blanks on the GV form. Any help would be appreciated.
Have you done ANY of the reading on how to do this before you started? You need to call AT&T customer service to get your account number.
No Rick, the post by Quchaiwan2000 on June 16, 2011, 10:20:56 pm is what drew me to the forum, I read all 11 pages of the replies to that. I am new at navigating my way around a forum and am obviously not the skilled individual that you are. I asked you for advice because you were the one who referred me to the go phone. Forgive me for mistaking you for being someone who would be kind enough to just answer my very basic questions. I won't bother you further.
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