Number porting to GV - my experience
DaveL:
Quote from: LTN1 on October 01, 2019, 04:58:23 pm
Seems like you can buy a PayGo Ultra Mobile on eBay and have it activated online here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/PreLoaded-Ultra-Mobile-SIM-Card-with-19-Plan-1st-Month-Services-included/182154428180?hash=item2a693fff14:g:5fYAAOSwYUBa3xvG
The cost is $10 and includes the first month free with free porting, etc.
I just finished porting my landline number from CenturyLink to UltraMobile and then to Google Voice.
I purchased the $ 9.99 SIM on Ebay from Ezkonnect mentioned in the link above. Reading the Ebay comments I was a little concerned about a couple that claimed they didn't get the free month free service, so I contacted Ezkonnect before I tried activating the SIM. They told me I needed to activate on their site, NOT on the UltraMobile site. I did that - it took 3 1/2 days for the port to complete from CenturyLink and I did have the free month service added to my account.
I waited another 10 days, just to be safe before attempting to port to Google Voice. It was easy to get my UltraMobile account # and PIN. After your UltraMobile service is activated, you go to their website and access your account by entering your phone # and requesting a password to be texted to your phone. Once you get this, you can login to your account - however that doesn't show your account number. However, your account page says this - "In order to access your UltraMobile account #, please contact Customer Service..." and the current number which I won't mention here 'cause that could change. You simply call this and choose the option to get your account number, which will be texted to you along with your PIN, which in my case was the last 4 digits of my phone number.
It took 24 hours for the port to Google Voice to complete. Pretty smooth. There was one thing I wasn't sure about - the Google Voice porting form has fields to enter Billing Address but when I looked at my UltraMobile account there was no billing address. So to be safe, I added a credit card and billing address just in case the two billing addresses needed to match. Anyway, very satisfied with how this went. Thanks to LTN1 for the info on the UltraMobile SIM on Ebay and everyone who has contributed to this thread!
LTN1:
Glad that it worked out for you, DaveL! Thanks for keeping the thread updated regarding the UltraMobile SIM.
Albert12:
Thanks for the kind words.
Like Johnny, I asked myself the same question. My primary goal here is to keep my land line number and my secondary goal is to enjoy the free services from Google for as long as they are available.
That said, I choose to port my number to GV because in case there is any hiccup with Google Chat, I can always route my calls to my other phone numbers. If I port my land line straight to CC, then I lost this flexibility. This is, of course, assuming that Google will at least continue to provide call routing. In case Google stops everything, then CC is always there for me.
Black1Star:
Planning on doing this, but don't have a unlocked phone to test out the ports with. Anybody try to do this without the phone?
Anybody have a suggestion on an unlocked or tmobile phone to buy for this?
Thanks.
dtmp:
I was going to try this with my current mobile service (ting) since I have an old iPhone 5s I was going to use. Turns out, because of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger I can no longer use the old iPhone 5s. So, before you purchase any sim cards, make sure they work with the phone you are trying to use.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page