topic Re: Keeping same American number in Get Support

Keeping same American number

seanmj98 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:57:41 GMT

Hi,

I recently moved from America to Canada. I have had an At&t number for a while and would love to keep the same number. Since the two countries have the same extension, would it be possible to keep the same American number I have if I transition to Public Mobile?

Re: Keeping same American number

kb_mv — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:18:44 GMT

@seanmj98 wrote:
Hi,
I recently moved from America to Canada. I have had an At&t number for a while and would love to keep the same number. Since the two countries have the same extension, would it be possible to keep the same American number I have if I transition to Public Mobile?

@seanmj98 Unfortunately not. You will need a Canadian number to use with Public Mobile. Maybe you could port the US number to Fongo or Textnow and forward that to the PM number?

Edit: maybe not on Fongo but there must be some that would allow this?

Re: Keeping same American number

Gunner123 — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:08:49 GMT

@seanmj98 wrote:
Hi,
I recently moved from America to Canada. I have had an At&t number for a while and would love to keep the same number. Since the two countries have the same extension, would it be possible to keep the same American number I have if I transition to Public Mobile?

@seanmj98 hi sorry Canadian numbers only

Re: Keeping same American number

Dunkman — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:10:13 GMT

@seanmj98

From my understanding, you can only port over numbers from a Canadian mobile company. You will need to choose another Canada number.

Re: Keeping same American number

Luddite — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:12:10 GMT

@kb_mv I think Fongo is Canadian numbers only.

Re: Keeping same American number

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:17:42 GMT

@seanmj98 : You could just keep the service with AT&T. They roam here. You're probably even paying less. The problem would be that then callers here would need calling ability to call you and likely incur costs.

Re: Keeping same American number

Luddite — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:21:55 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@seanmj98 : You could just keep the service with AT&T. They roam here. You're probably even paying less. The problem would be that then callers here would need calling ability to call you and likely incur costs.

@Anonymous I recall reading that US carriers offering NA unlimited roaming "require" most usage to be within USA. Similar, issues occur in Europe even with EU wide roaming mandated.

Re: Keeping same American number

BasesLoadedWalk — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:23:45 GMT

@Luddite wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@seanmj98 : You could just keep the service with AT&T. They roam here. You're probably even paying less. The problem would be that then callers here would need calling ability to call you and likely incur costs.
@Anonymous I recall reading that US carriers offering NA unlimited roaming "require" most usage to be within USA. Similar, issues occur in Europe even with EU wide roaming mandated.

AT&T no longer has any geographic usage restriction in place. I have confirmed directly with AT&T, and they removed that in late 2019. I have had AT&T prepaid for just about 2 years now.

Re: Keeping same American number

BasesLoadedWalk — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:27:32 GMT

@seanmj98 wrote:
Hi,
I recently moved from America to Canada. I have had an At&t number for a while and would love to keep the same number. Since the two countries have the same extension, would it be possible to keep the same American number I have if I transition to Public Mobile?

I use Voip.ms and forward calls I receive from AT&T to my Voip number, which then also then forwards to my Public Mobile number. You could also just set up a Voip Canadian phone number and have it set up to forward to your AT&T number. That way people in Canada can call a local number, and you can keep your USA based plan. Voip costs me 2-4 bucks a month depending on call volume that gets forwarded.

Re: Keeping same American number

Nezgar — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:42:50 GMT

@seanmj98

You can't port a USA number into Public Mobile, but if you'd like to keep the number, you could port it to another service like voip.ms for a dollar or less per month and just use it for call forwarding. I know they support porting in USA numbers. Then you could pick a new Canadian number with Public Mobile.