What is the current cheapest way to port a landline to Google Voice?

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SteveInWA:
No, you do not need to use AT&T Prepaid.  Google Voice doesn't care, as long as you port the number to a mobile carrier, wait a full week, then port to GV.

That said, H20 is one of the very worst, least competent service providers, when it comes to porting.  They have no idea how to deal with it; they only know how to sell SIM cards.  Good luck getting the correct account number and PIN you will need to submit to them via the Google Voice porting form.

velandia:
Quote from: SteveInWA on August 15, 2019, 10:52:50 am


That said, H20 is one of the very worst, least competent service providers, when it comes to porting.  They have no idea how to deal with it; they only know how to sell SIM cards. 


I was so concerned with H2O port out difficulty that I sprung the extra $$$ at the ATT store to sign up for an ATT go-phone.  I'm glad I did, it took like 1.5hr but the ATT rep was able to get it done after a couple calls to ATT porting specialist conferenced with H2O.  ugh!   

I don't think google voice would have done it, according to the ATT rep, H2O has to manually release the phone number, and I couldn't even get google reps to contact H2O.  In fact they kept arguing that the number is under ATT (because that's the network that H20 uses).  My other concern was that the GV to port from auto-populates the carrier field (ATT) and there's no way to override it to H2O.

...now why did I use H2O?  At first I tried to go through T-Mobile prepaid,  but I found out that T-Mobile's prepaid business has been sold to Ultramobile - so I couldn't even activate a plan with them without spending an additional $40.  So I thought about H2O since my whole family's cells are with them, prob spend less than $15 per mo. per phone simply because we're not heavy phone users, and there's no long term contract.  ...and I thought, well H2O uses the ATT network, and GV website confirmed that our H2O numbers can be transferred to GV - obviously not so.

lesson learned.

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