Number porting to GV - my experience
stevies3:
I see many here have used T-Mobile to port there landline number to prior to GV. Is T-Mobile preferred? Will ATT work just as easily? I ask as ATT is more convenient for me.
SteveInWA:
AT&T is fine. Note that there are two different services: The traditional AT&T Wireless postpaid plans, and AT&T GoPhone, the prepaid subsidiary. When submitting the porting form to Google, be sure you have obtained the correct information from AT&T or from GoPhone. The account number for GoPhone is not displayed anywhere you can see; you need to contact them and ask for it.
It's crucial to follow the process methodically, and not to get impatient and rush things.
Start by entering your number into the Google Voice porting dashboard: https://www.google.com/voice/porting
One of three things will be reported back to you:
Congratulations, your number can be ported.Ooops! We currently don't support porting from your carrier. We apologize and are working on adding support for more carriers.Ooops! This number appears to be from an area we don't currently support.
If you get the "area" error, then your number cannot be ported to Google Voice, regardless of first porting it to a mobile carrier. The other two messages mean you're likely to be successful.
Wait several dayts after porting it from the land line to the mobile carrier, and ensure that you can both make and answer voice calls on the mobile phone, and send and receive text messages. Do NOT attempt to port it into Google Voice before that point.
Almighty1:
The best and cheapest way to port from a landline or even mobile to Google Voice is to actually port to Google Project Fi first since basically you just need to order a phone too and pay for it first.
After the phone arrives, you activate the Google Project Fi service and then port. When the porting is complete, you cancel the Project Fi service which is $0.67/day + tax and you basically return the phone for a refund which Google will provide prepaid return shipping label for.
When you cancel Google Project Fi, you can keep the same number on Google Voice for free. If you port your phone number to Google Voice from anyone else, there is a $30 porting fee on the Google Voice side.
Do not do this. It is not the intended way to port a number to Google Voice.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: Almighty1 on September 18, 2017, 07:23:53 am
The best and cheapest way to port from a landline or even mobile to Google Voice is to actually port to Google Project Fi first since basically you just need to order a phone too and pay for it first.
After the phone arrives, you activate the Google Project Fi service and then port. When the porting is complete, you cancel the Project Fi service which is $0.67/day + tax and you basically return the phone for a refund which Google will provide prepaid return shipping label for.
When you cancel Google Project Fi, you can keep the same number on Google Voice for free. If you port your phone number to Google Voice from anyone else, there is a $30 porting fee on the Google Voice side.
That is a pretty heinous scam, wasting Google's money and rendering that very expensive phone unable to be resold as new.
Just do what everybody else does: port the land line into a T-Mobile or GoPhone prepaid service, using any old compatible mobile phone, wait a few days for everything to work properly, and then port it to Google Voice
stevies3:
I ported my landline to ATT cellular (iphone) on 10/22, as of today, 10/25 I can receive and make calls via my cell phone as well as receive and send texts. Oddly I can't receive phone calls to my iphone from a landline phone number just yet, just other cell numbers. If a landline calls my cell number my house landline rings. I think this will remedy itself when my landline account (FIOS) officially closes my account which is scheduled for 10/26. if all goes well I will then port my iphone number to Google Voice.
PS: My landline is still functional at my home until they officially close my account.
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