Prepaid phone plans - basic-phone question

[geekette]

In my experience, with AT&T, as I ported numbers out to Airvoice one by one, the AT&T bill would go down.  I ported out the last one and got a final bill.  As long as you're not under contract, I don't see a problem, but it can't hurt to call or do an online chat.

[Daley]

Won't I still need to cancel our old plan/break up with T-Mobile after doing this? Porting the numbers won't do anything to cancel our service, correct?

Porting your number out is how you terminate service with your old carrier without losing your number. If you cancel service before porting, you lose that number.

[MVal]

Won't I still need to cancel our old plan/break up with T-Mobile after doing this? Porting the numbers won't do anything to cancel our service, correct?

Porting your number out is how you terminate service with your old carrier without losing your number. If you cancel service before porting, you lose that number.

Perfect.

I don't suppose there's any way to repair a dumb phone these days, is there? I mean, unless you're mechanically savvy enough to do it yourself...I realized too late that the Airvoice SIM card I purchased was "triple cut" and upon trying to remove it, it lodged in the SIM holder and I bent and broke two of the pins in there. Now the phone won't see any SIM card. To add insult to injury, not only is the phone probably ruined, but I had already transferred all my contacts off my old SIM to this phone, so now I have no way to get my contacts onto another phone. Grrrrr!! This was a nice looking little AT&T used phone too...There's $30 bucks wasted. The phone repair shops I've called so far say they don't work on basic phones anymore.

I was hoping to get all this porting business done before the start of the new billing cycle on the current T-mobile plan, but now I may have pay another month waiting for the unlock code from T-mobile for my Samsung slider, the new "straight" SIM cards, etc. Lesson learned, I guess.

[MVal]

Well, I figured out how to retrieve the phone numbers...apparently they weren't deleted from the SIM like I thought. Got them copied back to the old phone, now just waiting for T-Mobile to get me the unlock code for my old Gravity-t, so I can limp it along until my new LG Expression arrives from ebay.  I'm also going to have to spring for a $10 Airvoice SIM card from Walmart since the new $0.99 ones that are NOT triple cut won't arrive from ebay until next week. And maybe that's all wasted effort towards trying to get at least one of the phones off the plan before the next billing cycle because I have no idea how long it takes Airvoice to port the numbers from T-mobile.

[MVal]

Well now we're with Airvoice and so far it's been okay, except they've informed me I cannot send pictures to my email on their service, I can only send them via text message to other phones. Been getting used to a new phone, an LG Expression C395, not sure how I feel about it yet. If the unlock code ever comes for my Samsung Gravity T 669, I may go back to that.

[geekette]

Well now we're with Airvoice and so far it's been okay, except they've informed me I cannot send pictures to my email on their service, I can only send them via text message to other phones.

That's odd - I email pics from my iPhone all the time on Airvoice.  Maybe it's the phone and not Airvoice?

[MVal]

Well now we're with Airvoice and so far it's been okay, except they've informed me I cannot send pictures to my email on their service, I can only send them via text message to other phones.

That's odd - I email pics from my iPhone all the time on Airvoice.  Maybe it's the phone and not Airvoice?

Hmmm, maybe. The funny thing is I got an email from my phone, but the picture just didn't show up. So you send pics from your phone to your regular email without a problem?

[geekette]

Yes, often.  Usually over wifi, which I can't see how Airvoice could possibly block.  I'm pretty sure I've sent one over cellular, but I can't swear to it.

[MVal]

Yes, often.  Usually over wifi, which I can't see how Airvoice could possibly block.  I'm pretty sure I've sent one over cellular, but I can't swear to it.

Maybe that's the problem. My dumb phone doesn't have wifi capability, I don't think.