Trying to port a landline

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jemco:
Hello all,

I am trying to port a Time Warner/Spectrum landline number and I found this tutorial:

http://www.obihai.com/porttutorial

It tells me to purchase a T-Mobile SIM card, which I did for $10. The SIM card arrived today in the mail.

When I go to activate the SIM card, T-Mobile tells me that they won't activate it unless I purchase a plan.
The tutorial doesn't say anything about additional fees. If it did, I would have considered using my cousin's old tracfone and paying $10 for some minutes and porting the number to that.

Can someone please tell me if I wasted my money following a possibly outdated tutorial or is there a way that I can port my landline without high costs to myself?

Thanks,
Joe

SteveInWA:
Consider this:  this procedure essentially abuses T-Mobile's service, by porting in a number, then immediately porting it out.  Porting costs money to the carriers.  You need to buy the minimum number of minutes needed to activate the phone and port in a number, and to be able to verify the number with Google Voice.

zsak23:
https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/marketing-module/pay_as_you_go.html

This is a $3/month plan at T-Mobile

jemco:
thank you. Thank you.
I finally got some service from T-Mobile support.
They have a landline department and someone has told me that my number will be ported in by friday.
I appreciate all the help.

Rick441:
Quote from: zsak23 on May 24, 2018, 02:19:12 am

https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/marketing-module/pay_as_you_go.html

This is a $3/month plan at T-Mobile


I purchased the $3 plan, but they required a $10 minimum balance be created (on top of the $10 for the sim). But I'm happy the port from T-Mobile to GV went through...took 4 days, after 2 days to (completely) port my old ATT landline to T-Mo.

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