Comments on: Wireless number portability http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6567 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6567/comment-page-1#comment-22176 Reader's Write Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:16:05 +0000 #comment-22176 Portability is good, however keep this in mind. I am a cell phone dealer as part of my business and we just went through the portability thing last year here in the States. Here's a few things to remember... 1) your dealing with different companies. Companies do not like giving up their customers to their competitors. here we had companies who took up to two weeks to transfer numbers, or applied for extensions from the government. anything to make it difficult. 2) Your information has to be EXACT. example. if you have service with company X and you want to change to company Y, all the information you give company Y must be exactly the way it is on your billing with company X or it will get denied. if your name if John Smith and company X has it listed as Jon Smith, Jon is what you have to put on your new application. 3) A seperate company, not related to any of the phone providers, must be set up to act as a mediator to handle the transfers. 4) most important, you can only transfer local numbers. If you live in Quebec and move to Toronto you probably won't be able to take your number with you. It's very complicated and difficult to work out. especially when you're dealing with different companies and have to make it work. Portability is good, however keep this in mind. I am a cell phone dealer as part of my business and we just went through the portability thing last year here in the States.
Here’s a few things to remember…

1) your dealing with different companies. Companies do not like giving up their customers to their competitors. here we had companies who took up to two weeks to transfer numbers, or applied for extensions from the government. anything to make it difficult.

2) Your information has to be EXACT. example. if you have service with company X and you want to change to company Y, all the information you give company Y must be exactly the way it is on your billing with company X or it will get denied. if your name if John Smith and company X has it listed as Jon Smith, Jon is what you have to put on your new application.

3) A seperate company, not related to any of the phone providers, must be set up to act as a mediator to handle the transfers.

4) most important, you can only transfer local numbers. If you live in Quebec and move to Toronto you probably won’t be able to take your number with you.

It’s very complicated and difficult to work out. especially when you’re dealing with different companies and have to make it work.

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