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[Fuzzball]

You do not lose your number if you plan properly. See my post on the Google Voice "trick". Worked great and allowed me to keep my 15 year phone number and get rid of rip off VZW.

Now that's interesting. Why would porting your number to GV leave your account intact, but porting it to another carrier cancel's the account? If you can do that with GV, surely you can do that with another provider. Looks like the supervisors for the CSRs were not fully informed. I'm going to have to do more research.

 

[JohnAP2]

Now that's interesting. Why would porting your number to GV leave your account intact, but porting it to another carrier cancel's the account? If you can do that with GV, surely you can do that with another provider. Looks like the supervisors for the CSRs were not fully informed. I'm going to have to do more research.

I do not think VZW Reps would have any idea this "backdoor" method even exists unless its popularity starts exploding. Its done completely autonomous from VZW assistance. Under a normal, carrier initiated port request your existing account would close when the port is complete. This would not be conducive to keeping your old phone number and concurrently allowing the AOL of your VZW account. With a GV port request the moment you hit the payment button your port is initiated. When you immediately log into your VZW account and submit a number change request GV has already "locked" your old number in and the new number immediately replaces the original. It takes exactly 24 hours for the original number to complete its port to GV. The only people who had any trouble are those who put the wrong password in or added the -0001 on their account number while filling out the GV port request. Remember, its not your password for accessing MyVZW online they need it is your actual account PIN. I didn't have a PIN originally and called prior to my port to set it up. If you do not want to keep your number on GV it is easily ported out of once you find a carrier you are going to stick with. For a bit of hassle the money you make on the AOL is well worth it.

 

[52brandon]

Good luck with your business. I hope you're successful. I've been noodling starting my own, but I don't know how well I'd do selling my simple little invention to office supply stores.

If you find a way to keep your number and sell your grandfathered data, I'd be interested to hear it.

thanks man. It's tough. But the theory is that once it catches traction, it'll be worth what a pain it is now. Guess we'll see...

You do not lose your number if you plan properly. See my post on the Google Voice "trick". Worked great and allowed me to keep my 15 year phone number and get rid of rip off VZW.

good to know. Can you post a link to that post?