Number porting to GV - my experience
SteveInWA:
There is no "porting kit". Just buy a prepaid SIM from T-Mobile or AT&T GoPhone, with the minimum amount of prepaid calling time you can find. Either get it online from the carrier, or from a seller on Amazon or eBay, whatever. By the way, don't use H2O Wireless - the least competent carrier at porting.
jpw94:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LPPHHFK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
jra85:
Quote from: jpw94 on March 10, 2015, 06:00:49 pm
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LPPHHFK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Thanks! Will see what the pricing is in-store to compare but good to have this option.
Also, has anybody on here ever transferred their number OUT of Google Voice to another carrier, and was it a smooth process? The number I plan to transfer to GV has been "owned" by my parents for 22 years, so I'm rolling the dice a bit taking it to GV to begin with, but want to make sure if I need/want to switch to a more premium carrier, I can do so without a headache.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: jra85 on March 12, 2015, 07:10:07 am
Quote from: jpw94 on March 10, 2015, 06:00:49 pm
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LPPHHFK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Thanks! Will see what the pricing is in-store to compare but good to have this option.
Also, has anybody on here ever transferred their number OUT of Google Voice to another carrier, and was it a smooth process? The number I plan to transfer to GV has been "owned" by my parents for 22 years, so I'm rolling the dice a bit taking it to GV to begin with, but want to make sure if I need/want to switch to a more premium carrier, I can do so without a headache.
Thousands of people port numbers into, or out of, Google Voice every month. The number porting process is largely automated, and unforgiving of data entry errors by the user (wrong format or characters in the user ID or PIN or password are, by far, the leading problems). When these errors are identified, the automation kicks out the port for review by humans, which tends to add another few days of delay. There is little risk of losing a number, with one caveat: users should never cancel or abandon service on a number being ported. This causes the number to be returned to the owning carrier, and the user loses the right to port the number. The porting process itself will cancel service with the losing carrier at the appropriate time.
All number ports between US carriers are administered by the Number Porting Administration Center, or NPAC (http://www.npac.com). Google, like other carriers, follows FCC regulations and works with NPAC as the neutral party to handle number porting. The only step that a Google Voice user needs to take when porting a number out of GV is to "unlock" the number for porting; this step is intended to help prevent numbers from being fraudulently stolen from a user. Unlocking a previously-ported-in number is free. After that step, all subsequent porting activity is the responsibility of the gaining (new) carrier and the user to complete.
I hope this helps clarify the process. If you run into any issues, please feel free to post over on the Google Voice help forum, and we'll be happy to help you.
jra85:
Perfect, thank you for the explanation Steve, that helps assuage my concerns about bringing their number over to GV.
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