Number porting to GV - my experience
SteveInWA:
You can use AT&T Prepaid. It is simply a name change from GoPhone.
With regard to T-Mobile prepaid, people typically buy a T-Mobile SIM online and the minimum number of minutes that they sell as a bucket of minutes. There isn't a $50 fee.
Bottom line: this is a hack, to change your landline phone number into a mobile number. You're taking advantage of the mobile carrier by having them port in the number, and then they will lose the business by porting it out again. This isn't free for the carrier to do, so whatever cost you pay to them to buy a SIM and some minutes is covering their cost doing this.
Slamor07:
New here...Just ported Straight Talk Home Phone to GV in 24hrs.
I did check if GV Porting Tool would accept my Straight Talk number ...Congratulations # is portable.
Straight Talk Home which uses Verizon ported directly to GV w/o using Tmobile or any other SIM card.
In GV, I forwarded calls to my personal cell which I linked to GV until OBi200 arrives tomorrow. Then I will connect home phone to OBi200 and unforward calls from personal cell.
The porting process was seamless.
;D
brad.mccollum:
My experience of porting/transferring a number from Ooma > ATT Prepaid Wireless > Google Voice.
Began the process of porting/transferring a long-standing Ooma "home" number on Thurs., March 22, 2018.
--- Went into local ATT store on 03/22/2018 explaining that I'd like to get the cheapest ATT Prepaid Phone possibly with nothing fancy on the plan in order to ultimately port my Ooma-associated # to Google Voice. No issues. Got in/out of there for a total of $30.
--- Received msg. on ATT's site later on that day that the port request to get the Ooma-associated # ported to the new ATT prepaid wireless phone failed. At this point, a back and forth between myself, ATT, and Ooma began and this went on for several days straight. I was anticipating these issues, as most of what I'd read online from people that were trying to port a # *away* from Ooma had stated that it was a nightmare trying to deal with Ooma. I found this very much to be the case. ATT and I spoke numerous times, the # port request was resubmitted by ATT to Ooma numerous additional times, and those additional requests were all turned down again... about 4 times. I finally got ATT and myself and Ooma porting support on the phone together. For the longest time, all we could get out of Ooma was that the port request failed due to either missing info. or incorrect info. We asked them SPECIFICALLY what was missing or incorrect, and they never would/could give us a specific answer, simply reverting back to their bland statement that the port request was denied due to either missing or incomplete info. provided in the port request submission. A very helpful ATT representative finally got them to divulge that in the "remarks" section of the port request ATT was resubmitting, to put "Ooma, Inc." along with Ooma's business address in Palo Alto, CA in that same "remarks" section. That finally did the trick, with the port from Ooma to ATT being completed in another 2-or-so days. At the point of receiving the "completed" msg. on ATT's "port status check" page, I turned on the ATT prepaid cell phone for the first time and set the phone up and could indeed verify that my previous Ooma # was now associated with this ATT prepaid cell.
--- On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, I initiated a request in Google Voice to port the # from ATT to Google Voice.
--- On Friday, March 30, 2018, just under 48 hours from the port request from ATT to Google Voice, I received a msg. that the # was now associated with Google Voice.
All in all, the Ooma to ATT port was a nightmare and Ooma proved to be very unhelpful with the entire process until a very helpful ATT representative pressed them very hard for details on *exactly* how the port request needed to be resubmitted in order for the request to be carried out properly. The ATT to Google Voice port was very straightforward and completed with no issues.
Hope this helps.
glnz6:
Thanks to SteveInWA for his excellent porting "philosophy" above at http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=1051.msg86959#msg86959.
I add to that as follows: After you order the first port from a copper land line to your cheap prepaid mobile phone (or SIM card), wait at least for that copper land line to go dead before you try to start your second port to Google Voice. I would actually wait a few more days as well for the new network information to propagate out to the world before you start your second port to Google Voice.
Also, I used a Verizon Wireless prepaid flip phone for my interim destination - a Samsung Gusto. The phone itself is about $50, and it costs about $30 for a month's use. Since I was porting out Verizon copper land line numbers, I wanted to stay "in the family" in case something went wrong. Also, I found that Verizon Wireless's "porting department" at 888-844-7095 was pretty good in helping me get over a snag for the first port. (I did not need them for the second port to Google Voice, and I'm not sure they could have helped for the port OUT anyway.)
Also, thanks to lots of advice on this and other forums by SteveInWA and friends, when I bought the Verizon Wireless prepaid flip phone Samsung Gusto, I had the fellow in the Verizon Wireless store write down ALL the info I would need on the Google Voice porting web page - the Verizon Wireless prepaid flip phone's account number, account name (which I had designated anyway), account address (which he picked the first time and I picked the second time), PIN (which I had designated) and the email address for the account (which I had designated). Having that written down on the receipt printed page for the Verizon Wireless prepaid flip phone Samsung Gusto was very helpful when I was finally at the Google Voice porting web page.
eaglemaster:
Quote from: glnz6 on April 01, 2018, 01:05:43 pm
Thanks to SteveInWA for his excellent porting "philosophy" above at http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=1051.msg86959#msg86959.
I add to that as follows: After you order the first port from a copper land line to your cheap prepaid mobile phone (or SIM card), wait at least for that copper land line to go dead before you try to start your second port to Google Voice. I would actually wait a few more days as well for the new network information to propagate out to the world before you start your second port to Google Voice.
Also, I used a Verizon Wireless prepaid flip phone for my interim destination - a Samsung Gusto. The phone itself is about $50, and it costs about $30 for a month's use. Since I was porting out Verizon copper land line numbers, I wanted to stay "in the family" in case something went wrong. Also, I found that Verizon Wireless's "porting department" at 888-844-7095 was pretty good in helping me get over a snag for the first port. (I did not need them for the second port to Google Voice, and I'm not sure they could have helped for the port OUT anyway.)
Also, thanks to lots of advice on this and other forums by SteveInWA and friends, when I bought the Verizon Wireless prepaid flip phone Samsung Gusto, I had the fellow in the Verizon Wireless store write down ALL the info I would need on the Google Voice porting web page - the Verizon Wireless prepaid flip phone's account number, account name (which I had designated anyway), account address (which he picked the first time and I picked the second time), PIN (which I had designated) and the email address for the account (which I had designated). Having that written down on the receipt printed page for the Verizon Wireless prepaid flip phone Samsung Gusto was very helpful when I was finally at the Google Voice porting web page.
thanks for the info i am also in route to make this happen since u suggested "Verizon Prepaid - Samsung Gusto 3 " i found on bestbuy website for $9.99 + taxes but couldnt see any cheap prepaid planes all i could see was unlimited or my other option is getting tmobile simcard from ebay for $5 shipped to my home and i can use some old unlocked phone to me it seems like verizon was easy on you when it came to porting, also my current home voip is Vonage so not even sure if porting number will be easy but i did do the tmobile number port test and my number was eligible to convert to tmobile
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