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Some consumers are hesitant to change their cell phone provider, even if they see a better deal, simply because too many people already know their existing cell phone number. Meanwhile, that cell phone contract service may be costing you an arm and a leg every month. You can better manage your cellular budget with prepaid, and you don't have to lose your old cell number. Depending on your carrier, there may be a small fee involved for the transfer of service.

Credit Pacific Service Union The FCC has required most carriers to implement Local Number Portability (LNP), which is a service that lets you transfer a phone number to another carrier, so long as the new carrier is still in your local area. You can take advantage of the LNP mandate to switch wireless carriers and keep the same number, or even to transfer your landline phone to a cell phone. You can't transfer a pager number, toll free number, or some other types of special use numbers.

cell phone number when I switch carriers You can keep your cell phone number when you change service providers. Due to the way we facilitate this change, you’ll need to be in the same general location. For example, if you live in San Francisco and are changing your service provider and keeping the same cell phone number it’s no problem. However, if you live in San Francisco and are moving to say, Chicago, you will not be able to transport your cell phone number. If this is an important feature for you and you want to keep your San Francisco based cell phone number when you move to Chicago, you should make the switch before you move and update your billing address when you move to Chicago in order to keep your existing San Francisco cell phone number.

Credit First Service Union Usually, when you transfer your phone number from an old service to a new service, your old service will be disconnected automatically. If your old service was a contract type cell phone service, and your contract has not yet expired, you may still have to pay fees to the old service. But if you're transferring between prepaid services, as always, no long-term contracts or related fees will apply.

In such cases, TEL3 is not responsible for any charges that may accrue onto your cell phone bill.A valid credit card is required to acquire service.

Card Credit Mobile Service LNP doesn't mean, however, that you can use a cell phone as an extension of a landline phone; if you transfer your landline phone number to your cell phone, your landline service will be disconnected. In the future, carriers may be able to offer such a service, however. For the time being, the best way to use your cell phone as an extension of your home phone is to use the call forwarding feature of your landline home phone.

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Card Credit Discover Service You can transfer a phone number regardless of your carrier, the FCC has mandated that a carrier may not refuse to port a phone number to another carrier. If you want to port a phone number to a new service, contact your new provider first, they are the ones who will take care of the transfer. Don't cancel your old service before the porting process begins, or you may lose the ability to transfer the number. Also be aware that cellular providers sometimes have incompatible telephones, and even though you may be keeping the same phone number, you may still need to buy another cell phone.

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Credit Public Service Union Tom Spelling is a contributing editor to Prepaid Reviews - a website that reviews prepaid cellular service providers and rates them according to service factors and customer feedback. The site offers reviews on T-Mobile prepaid phones, Cingular prepaid wireless and many more brands of prepaid cell service. http://www.prepaidreviews.com/

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