I have transferred my landline number to tracfone (with some problems). Now when I want to transfer the number to google voice I get the following message.
Porting your mobile number to Google Voice is unavailable
Your mobile number can not be ported at this time.
- This number appears to be from an area we don't currently support for porting.
My number is just a standard US mainline area code which is 440. I do not understand why google voice cannot accept that number. help from google voice seems non-existant so I thought I would try here.
Thanks
Unfortunately, the area code is not the deciding factor that determines whether a number is portable. It is the rate center that the number falls under. For example, if your number is: 440-NPA-XXXX, the NPA the first three digits of your telephone number, is the overriding factor. Google Voice gets all the numbers from Bandwidth.com and they have to have a presence in that rate center to be able to port in a number. There is an online tool you can use to check to see if Bandwidth.com operate in that rate center. See link below; you need to enter the area code and the first three digits of your number to see if Banwidth.com is capable of porting your number:
http://www.telcodata.us/search-area-code-exchange-detail?npa=440&exchange=
There are some discussions on the 'number porting to GV - My Experience thread' on what options you have if you port a landline to a mobile but then find out GV will not do ports from numbers in that exchange.
Here's one message: http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=1051.msg38336#msg38336
Also see page 6 of the same thread.
Quote from: RFord on July 07, 2013, 03:55:08 PM
Unfortunately, the area code is not the deciding factor that determines whether a number is portable. It is the rate center that the number falls under. For example, if your number is: 440-NPA-XXXX, the NPA the first three digits of your telephone number, is the overriding factor. Google Voice gets all the numbers from Bandwidth.com and they have to have a presence in that rate center to be able to port in a number. There is an online tool you can use to check to see if Bandwidth.com operate in that rate center. See link below; you need to enter the area code and the first three digits of your number to see if Banwidth.com is capable of porting your number:
http://www.telcodata.us/search-area-code-exchange-detail?npa=440&exchange=
I checked and bandwidth.com is not listed for my area code and exchange. Does that mean there is absolutely no way to port the number to GV?
Quote from: wisbadger on July 10, 2013, 12:19:04 PM
Does that mean there is absolutely no way to port the number to GV?
Pretty much it is not. You can port your number to another VOIP provider ( try Localphone mayber they can port your number, their monthly DID fee is 99c.) and use GV for outgoing.