Number porting to GV - my experience
colby352:
I will try my best to keep this short and sweet! My mom lives next door. She is on fixed income and tired of bills increasing in price. So I wirelessly bridged my house with hers using 2 ubiquiti nanostation m5. She has her own ASUS router in Access Point mode. So far it’s all working out great with speeds from 60-70 mbps! But she wants to keep her landline spectrum number.
I ported her Spectrum line to T-Mobile Prepaid $3/month. The line has been ported and active for couple days now BUT Google Voice still says, "Ooops! This number appears to be from an area we don't currently support.”
From my understanding it’s not possible so whatever it is what it is. I thought about getting a MagicJack or a Ooma Telo but the reviews seem AWFUL! Since we already have the OBi200 I have been thinking about porting her number to callcentric and have them be the VOIP provider and its only like $6/month unlimited.
Has anyone gone this route and have any feedback they’d like to provide? I just want to make sure that callcentric is decent and won't be awful call quality or wont crap out. Hope the port doesn't take long.
SteveInWA:
Callcentric is just fine, but they may not be able to port the number, either; you'll just have to try it and find out.
Of course, you can simply get her a new phone number.
sostpm:
Good question.. I thought what you did with T-mobile was correct. I got my GV phone port to work because my cell phone actually answers on inbound calls but.. I got the "OOPS message from GV indicating that the port did NOT work. So I'm not sure it will work for you. I got the very same messages you did. What I wanted was to ring my home portable phones as well on inbound calls. They do NOT ring but my cell phone does get inbound calls and it rings.
dlarson54:
I learned that my xxx-xxx number could not be ported to GV after porting to T-Moblie. I used parkmyphone.com and my number ported there and that service forwards my calls to my GV number. It is the best work around I have found yet. I hope I find something to eliminate the middle man someday but for now this works good for a small fee.
jd123:
Hello guys I have a few questions.
I am trying to follow the guide at https://www.obitalk.com/info/tutorials/porttutorial but the links for the T-mobile pre-paid sim cards are not working for me. Will this one work? https://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-Prepaid-Complete-SIM-Kit/dp/B00LPPHHFK
Once I get the sim card and call T-mobile to activate it, do I have to pick between a plan like PayGo, or can I just add x amount of minutes into the card?
Thank you
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