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Number Portability realities

I was talking with a good friend of mine who decided to switch from Cincinnati Bell Wireless (an AT&T Wireless affiliate) to Verizon.  Alas, things didn't go so well.  So far it seems that CBW has done everything OK; however, Verizon has botched things.  He can currently call out, but he cannot receive calls.  Verizon has given him quite the runaround stating that he had canceled his service (when he hadn't), that CBW didn't port the number, and that it takes a while among other excuses.   Update: Other co-workers of his who made the same switch are experiencing the same issue with Verizon.

What about you?  I'd love to hear other experiences in porting a mobile number from one carrier to another.

-Nino

Posted: Dec 14 2003, 11:26 PM by nbenvenuti | with 3 comment(s)
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Tom said:

I am in the process of moving from Sprint to T-Mobile. Two weeks later and I am still waiting. A far cry form the 72 hour estimate they are telling us...
# December 15, 2003 9:48 AM

Avonelle Lovhaug said:

My son works for Radio Shack, and so he deals with a lot of cell phone issues. He says that almost everyone trying to make a switch is having some kind of problem. Apparently the phone companies both 1) don't have their act together on this, and 2) don't have a lot of incentive to get it together. Hopefully that will change eventually, but at least for now this is a fairly sucky process.
# December 15, 2003 4:52 PM

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# January 18, 2004 1:38 AM
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