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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / February 2007Porting Number Between Prepaid Services
Can I port my existing Locus Callplus prepaid phone number to one of the Cingular Go Phone prepaid plans (probably the $0.25/minute no daily charge plan)? If so, do I do it at the time of Go Phone activation, and are there magic words I need to say, or a special path through the voice prompts to use? Locus Callplus uses the Cingular TDMA network, and is shutting down at the end of March, so I have to move to a new cell service. I use about 50 minutes/month of time and want to minimize the total cost, so none of the monthly plans works. The $100 Go Phone card with 1 year expiration looks very attractive for cost, and also for the fact I have problems with the prepaid plans that require renewing every 30 days for low total cost. Unfortunately, T-Mobile coverage is a little spotty in my area, so Cingular seems like the best choice. Thanks for any help or advice P > Can I port my existing Locus Callplus prepaid phone number to one of > the Cingular Go Phone prepaid plans (probably the $0.25/minute no [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > days for low total cost. Unfortunately, T-Mobile coverage is a little > spotty in my area, so Cingular seems like the best choice. Check Page Plus. I switched my TDMA prepaid accounts for my kids to them. It's a renewal every 120 days. It's much better coverage than Cingular, since it's on Verizon's network, and roaming is permitted. Also AMPS use is permitted. It's also cheaper than GoPhone. >Check Page Plus. I switched my TDMA prepaid accounts for my kids to >them. It's a renewal every 120 days. It's much better coverage than >Cingular, since it's on Verizon's network, and roaming is permitted. >Also AMPS use is permitted. It's also cheaper than GoPhone. One thing I like about the Go Phone's now.... They have a plan that allows for free mobile-to-mobile, which works great for family's wanting to communicate with each other. >> Check Page Plus. I switched my TDMA prepaid accounts for my kids to >> them. It's a renewal every 120 days. It's much better coverage than >> Cingular, since it's on Verizon's network, and roaming is permitted. >> Also AMPS use is permitted. It's also cheaper than GoPhone. > One thing I like about the Go Phone's now.... They have a plan that > allows for free mobile-to-mobile, which works great for family's > wanting to communicate with each other. Yes, if you're going to be using a lot of minutes calling other Cingular customers, then the GoPhone can make sense. If you're just looking for a low-usage plan with low monthly minimums, there are better options. >> Can I port my existing Locus Callplus prepaid phone number to one of >> the Cingular Go Phone prepaid plans (probably the $0.25/minute no [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >Cingular, since it's on Verizon's network, and roaming is permitted. >... Cingular now has arguably the best digital coverage of any carrier. That said, different carriers have different coverage in different areas -- there is no one best carrier -- so you should check to see how actual coverage compares in areas you care about. In areas I care about here in the San Francisco Bay Area, Cingular is significantly better than any other carrier.  SignatureBest regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS: John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ> Don't let Cingular slant you towards Go Phone. They rip you out of a about a third of their GSM network. Look at the covergae map of contract GSM and VS pre paid GSM. You will be amazed at what they chop you out of. I am also on Free to Go. I end up in rural areas if not just in Wyoming or Montana once in a while. Pre paid has 0no GSM coverage up there. Nothing. The old TDMA had coverage anywhere. I have to check on this Check Page deal people are talking about. If not it's off to Verizon for me. Norm > Don't let Cingular slant you towards Go Phone. They rip you out of a about a > third of their GSM network. Look at the covergae map of contract GSM and VS > pre paid GSM. You will be amazed at what they chop you out of. I am also on > Free to Go. I end up in rural areas if not just in Wyoming or Montana once > in a while. Pre paid has 0no GSM coverage up there. Nothing. The old TDMA > had coverage anywhere. It's not just TDMA versus GSM, it's TDMA+AMPS versus GSM. Page Plus is the closest you can get for wide coverage in prepaid. I have to check on this Check Page deal people are > talking about. If not it's off to Verizon for me. PagePlus uses Verizon's network, and is much cheaper than Verizon's own prepaid InPulse service. "http://www.pagepluscellular.com/" Their web site is not very good, but at least you can purchase time online, unlike 7-11's SpeakOut service. PagePlus information not on their web site: -You must add more time every 120 days. -Unused time rolls over when you buy more. -There is no $80/800 minute card available, even though it's on their web site. -You can activate any old Verizon phone, even non-E911 capable. -You buy activation kits on eBay for about $5, which includes 100 minutes. Search for "Page Plus Cellular." > > Don't let Cingular slant you towards Go Phone. They rip you out of a about a > > third of their GSM network. Look at the covergae map of contract GSM and VS [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > -You buy activation kits on eBay for about $5, which includes 100 > minutes. Search for "Page Plus Cellular." You're certainly right about the Page Plus web site being poor. Thanks for supplying the additional info, which otherwise only seems to be available from their reseller's sites. P > You're certainly right about the Page Plus web site being poor. > Thanks for supplying the additional info, which otherwise only seems > to be available from their reseller's sites. Despite the poor web site, the actual phone service is excellent. I get the feeling that it's a very low-budget operation operating on very thin margins. I'd be surprised if there were more than three or four employees. > Don't let Cingular slant you towards Go Phone. They rip you out of a about a > third of their GSM network. Look at the covergae map of contract GSM and VS [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > talking about. If not it's off to Verizon for me. > Norm Thanks very much for this info. I hadn't realized the coverage maps were different. P On Feb 10, 5:52 pm, pc-learn...@hotmail.com wrote: > Can I port my existing Locus Callplus prepaid phone number to one of > the Cingular Go Phone prepaid plans (probably the $0.25/minute no [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Thanks for any help or advice > P I appreciate the various advice people have offered about what service to move to and will look into that, but no one has addressed my basic question about porting my existing CallPlus TDMA number to another prepaid plan. Can anyone help with the number porting question? Thanks P P.S. The area I'm interested in service for is Orange County, CA, particularly Irvine and Mission Viejo and neighboring cities. > I appreciate the various advice people have offered about what service > to move to and will look into that, but no one has addressed my basic > question about porting my existing CallPlus TDMA number to another > prepaid plan. I know that T-Mobile will port numbers from non-T-Mobile postpaid accounts to T-Mobile prepaid accounts, at a store. I would think that they can do it from prepaid as well, but your best bet is to go to a store and ask, rather than call them. That is if T-Mobile prepaid meets your needs in other ways. I saw a posting that T-Mobile ported from PagePlus to T-Mobile prepaid, so it should be possible from CallPlus too. I doubt if PagePlus will port, unless you can find a brick and mortar reseller of PagePlus (these do exist) that knows how to do porting. [Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is going away, and alt.cellular.attws is the proper venue for posts regarding AT&T's Wireless Service.] On Feb 12, 2:30 pm, pc-learn...@hotmail.com wrote: > On Feb 10, 5:52 pm, pc-learn...@hotmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Yes, they will port your old Call Plus number to Page Plus. I got a Page Plus activator guy on Ebay to do it for me (I asked before I bought, and he told me what info he would need; seller name is laserstore12.) |
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