Number porting to GV - my experience

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cezzium:
Thanks Steve,

I do want them separate.  One is the home phone which my hope is to eventually get rid of.

I should have mentioned I am very familiar with GV as a service.  I have had a GV number almost since GC became GV. I loved it because before I got a work cell phone I could give out that number and know it would ring everything when i was on call.

I'm not interested in ripping Tmobile or anyone off.  I was just not finding what was described over and over as the 5, 6 7 dollar card.  The only thing thus far is $25.  and if i must do it i must and it will work itself off after the second month.

what you describe with the obi device is exactly the plan. I believe they each need to be separate. 

Thanks for mentioning the wait as I saw many times people were doing this very quickly.

If the experience with Verizon can be as "easy peasy" as Tmobile I can certainly go with the card I ended up with.  I hate that I feel timid about this right now.

celia

SteveInWA:
Quote from: cezzium on December 10, 2018, 01:30:12 pm

Thanks Steve,

I do want them separate.  One is the home phone which my hope is to eventually get rid of.

I should have mentioned I am very familiar with GV as a service.  I have had a GV number almost since GC became GV. I loved it because before I got a work cell phone I could give out that number and know it would ring everything when i was on call.

I'm not interested in ripping Tmobile or anyone off.  I was just not finding what was described over and over as the 5, 6 7 dollar card.  The only thing thus far is $25.  and if i must do it i must and it will work itself off after the second month.

what you describe with the obi device is exactly the plan. I believe they each need to be separate.  

Thanks for mentioning the wait as I saw many times people were doing this very quickly.

If the experience with Verizon can be as "easy peasy" as Tmobile I can certainly go with the card I ended up with.  I hate that I feel timid about this right now.

celia




Here you go, the $10 T-Mobile SIM:  https://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-Prepaid-Complete-SIM-Kit/dp/B00LPPHHFK

There is nothing magic about using T-Mobile.  AT&T Prepaid or Verizon Prepaid would also work.  Just don't use one of the mickey-mouse MVNO companies like H20 or Lycamobile.  They are utterly incompetent at porting; their only skill is selling SIMs.

cezzium:
thanks for your kindness.

BrettOlbrys:
Steve,

I keep reading you saying wait a week before porting to GV, what happens if you don't?  If the landline port was successful to the new T-mobile phone and that phone is now able to send and receive calls and texts, what does waiting a week actually do?

Thanks

SteveInWA:
Quote from: BrettOlbrys on January 08, 2019, 06:14:19 am

Steve,

I keep reading you saying wait a week before porting to GV, what happens if you don't?  If the landline port was successful to the new T-mobile phone and that phone is now able to send and receive calls and texts, what does waiting a week actually do?

Thanks


Porting out of a land line to a mobile carrier is more complex than a mobile<-->mobile port, as is porting the mobile number to a land line carrier (Google Voice numbers are classified as land lines).  It can take several days for inbound call routing to be updated, and it can often take even longer for SMS message routing to be updated.  Rushing it before things settle down causes problems in the second port.  If you can now do bi-directional texting and calling, then give it at least another day before submitting the port to Google Voice.

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