Porting my Home Phone Number

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Mehndi:
Is it possible to port my home telephone number without first porting to a cell phone and then porting that cell number to Google Voice?  It just seems to be a convoluted way to do something simple-- which is to keep my current home phone number.

lhm.:
No.

Lavarock7:
Unfortunately, even after porting a home phone number to a cell and then trying to port toGoogleVoice, you may still not be able to do it. Some people report that Google just refuses to get the port for some reason.

If you wish to retain your home number, you could port it to a VOIP service such as Broadvoice or VOIP.MS or one of the many others. There would be a charge of some sort and you may have to pay per call, inbound or outbound. That still may be significantly less than you are currently paying.

Googlevoice will not allow you to fake an outbound caller id, however, some of the other Voip providers do. That may or may not help you, but I thought I would pass it along just in case.

carl:
VOIP providers like Localphone, Callcentric or Anveo will port your number for 20-25$. Some of them will provide inexpensoive DIDs with free incoming phone calls. You can use them for outgoing calls when it is important that your "proper " caller ID shows up and use GV for the rest.

JohnBowler:
Number portability seems to be an illusion.  I tried to port my original provider number in a variety of ways and was unable to do so.

I gave up.

Of course, I had paid $1.25/month for many years to be able to do this, but I can't, yet I listen to NPR radio shows whining about corruption in China when my fellow Americans can't see CORRUPTION when it ****s in their face.

Oh well; I get upset about these things because I've been ****ed and there is nothing I can do about it, apart, of course, from rant.

John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>

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