Tech Friday: Porting phone numbers has me holding my breath
Posted By RichC on May 10, 2024
Sometimes I know that I’m just tempting fate … like when it comes to switching mobile phone carriers … in my case, MVNO companies
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Last year, I switch my aging iPhone 7 plus over to USMobile on a trial. I ended up 
finding it preferred to Mint Mobile (T-Mobile) and found the service to be excellent, at least the Verizon Warp5G service (they also have GSM and will be adding AT&T this year — inside info).
Last fall, I switched to the “pooled data” plan with the intent of adding Brenda’s iPhone14 from Mint Mobile on her renewal date IF Mint refused to give me renewal option. They did not give her the $45 credit as they did last year, so it was an easier call. So the “port out” 
process was started.
UGH .. not so simple. Her phone number got stuck in “porting Armageddon.” After an afternoon of “round and round” with pointing fingers, US Mobile finally gave Brenda a temporary number to use and said to give them another day.
To finalize this apocalyptic event … all is well with the US Mobile porting and so as of Thursday night, it will become a Tech Friday kind of post. As of now, everything is running as it should on the Warp 5G pooled data plan (although I’m not sure about Brenda using my 6 GB of data with her iPhone14 5G speeds? No video watching please!) 😊
Perhaps I’ll up the data plan to 12 GB for the months we’re traveling more (away from WiFi) and then back to 6 GB at other times. The nice part about managing is that it is month to month … and additional GBs can be added mid-month for $2 each (vs 1GB for $10 with Mint Mobile).
So here’s a referral link in case you want your own apocalypse event … although my recommendation is the same as I gave to my kids … “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” 😁
replied, “with a dentist appointment” (although I did have some strawberries with whip cream for dinner’s dessert to made up for it).
