Porting my Home Phone Number
Lavarock7:
Quote from: JohnBowler on June 30, 2012, 10:15:18 pm
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
Do I smell "class action suit" against the phone company?
Wikipedia says: "The U.S. FCC since has mandated Wireless Local Number Portability starting November 24, 2003 (in metropolitan areas), and allowed operators to charge an additional monthly Long-Term Telephone Number Portability End-Use Charge as compensation. On November 10, 2003, the FCC additionally ruled that number portability applies to landline numbers moving to mobile telephones and, on October 31, 2007, the FCC made clear that the obligation to provide LNP extends to VoIP providers."
I have not look up the FCC ruling, but it appears the FCC said they HAVE to perform LNP and they get money to offset the loss of revenue and/or the cost to upgrade equipment to support it.
If you are paying a fee for service that you have not received, complain to the FCC and sue the phone company for return of the monies paid.
Of course you may find that this is not a fee, but a tax.
Trev:
One thing that perhaps you didn't keep in mind about local number portability is the local part. It's not universal number portability.
The new carrier that you want to port your number to must interconnect with the rate center your number belongs to. If you are in a smaller area, your choices are much more limited because the VoIP carriers haven't yet invested to install the necessary equipment.
The requirements for LNP only require them to port numbers that are within their service area. They are not forced to install equipment in a new city just because one customer wants to use their service.
tseward:
I just had luck porting my local number I followed this process here http://www.zdnet.com/blog/diy-it/diy-it-project-guide/373 The only difference is I used Tracfone. Although I would not use them again. They have terrible service. The biggest Issue I had with them is that they think everything being ported to them is already a wireless number. So make sure you let them know you are porting an AT+T number. After three attempts that finally worked. Essentially as I suspect the process they use requests as a standard ATT wireless but once I got to speak to a manager the process went through smoothly.
Once the number is live then request and port your number using Google. That only took 24 hours. The whole process took about 4 days once I got tracfone to listen. The cost was 19 for the phone, 14 for the minutes, 20 for the google transfer, 60 for the obhi202. For Free calling = priceless!
Good luck
jimates:
You can port to Tracfone online. I ported 2 landline numbers to Tracfone without a problem. But still could not port to google voice.
Tracfone's come with 10 minutes of airtime, you didn't need to purchase additional minutes.
Where did you get the Obi202 for $60?
tseward:
I got lucky and found one on Ebay from someone who did not like the complexity of getting started and poor documentation. Which by the way I agree the documentation for using, configuring, and getting the most out of the tool is significantly lacking.
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