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Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

IanM1 — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:57:51 GMT

Opened my new PM account this morning, specified porting an existing number from Speakout, entered all the required information, waited for a text from Speakout to approve the port-out.

5 hours later I get a text from PM saying "We're having trouble transferring your number, looks like the information collected was incorrect". The information I provided is complete and correct, and my Speakout account is active and in good standing, Speakout SIM active in my phone right now. I got nothing from Speakout.

PM doesn't seem to have a support phone number (at least Speakout had that!), or live chat. I went through the lengthy and repetitive process to submit a trouble ticket online, hoping it went through (do I have an existing PM phone number? Who knows?).

So now what? Do I wait an unknown length of time for PM to contact me? Do I call Speakout and try to find out why they have an unknown problem? Are there any known problems with Speakout-to-PM I could address?

We're not off to a good start here PM.

Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

dabr — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:56:40 GMT

@IanM1 Try reading this thread by another customer who recently ported from Speak Out:

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Getting-Started/Has-anyone-ported-from-SpeakOut-to-PM-recently-late-2021/td-p/751424/jump-to/first-unread-message

Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:57:41 GMT

@IanM1

if you stuck with Transferring your old Phone Number, or is not complete processing

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Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

esjliv — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:07:42 GMT

@IanM1 - yes, rough start.

Check your private messages in your Community INBOX. I sent you the Telus Porting phone number where you can talk to someone about your port.

Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

softech — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:23:40 GMT

@IanM1 porting from SO require a little bit more work. Create another ticket with CSA and provide the phone number to be ported, IMEI of the phone currently using SO , SO PIN#.

You can open a ticket using chatbot. But I suggest you to call the porting team(number given by @esjliv ) first to see if you can just give them the information on the phone, quicker that way

Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

BKNS27 — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:44:12 GMT

@IanM1

It seems that your porting is not completed so your Speakout SIM is still active and you can use for now until the porting is completed.

Meanwhile, the CS Agent will have to complete the porting process for you.

Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

IanM1 — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:32:32 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Someone gave me an actual phone number for the Telus porting team, and they were able to help me right away.

New issue though:

I now have a text from Speakout saying there is a porting request for my number, and I should contact them if I did not initiate it. No suggestion I should do anything if the port is ok.

The porting team told me I should text back "Yes" when I get the porting confirmation request from Speakout.

Which is it? Do I take Speakout's message as telling me to do nothing? If so, how long will they wait?

Or should I follow the porting team's instruction and text back "Yes", even though no reply is called for to Speakout's text?

Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

esjliv — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:39:01 GMT

@IanM1 wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Someone gave me an actual phone number for the Telus porting team, and they were able to help me right away.
New issue though:
I now have a text from Speakout saying there is a porting request for my number, and I should contact them if I did not initiate it. No suggestion I should do anything if the port is ok.
The porting team told me I should text back "Yes" when I get the porting confirmation request from Speakout.
Which is it? Do I take Speakout's message as telling me to do nothing? If so, how long will they wait?
Or should I follow the porting team's instruction and text back "Yes", even though no reply is called for to Speakout's text?

@IanM1 - Oh, good, well is sounds like the Telus Porting phone number I sent you got the porting process started again.

BUT - that is a bit conflicting isn't it? Gesh!

That is what the TEXT says, do contact if you did not initiate the port? Yeah, usually is it a YES to approve the port. Well, I guess, do not respond back.

But, I would keep the porting phone number handy to check in with them in a few hours to see if the port completed successfully...WELL, if you start getting incoming calls to your Public Mobile SIM card that is usually the indication the port completed.

Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:47:59 GMT

@IanM1

Make sure the old SIM card in your phone when you're Transfer your number. You should get a SMS message from your old carrier asking to confirm if you would like to Transfer your number. Your reply should be: YES.

The confirmation message can take a few minutes to come in. You have 90 minutes from the time of request.

if you did reply: YES and you still stuck with Transferring your old Phone Number and

you need go to my OP instruction how to Customer Support Agent..

Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

IanM1 — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 03:16:26 GMT

All good now, porting seems to have been successful. In the end I did text back YES to the Speakout message, but I'm not sure if that was necessary or not.

Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

softech — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 03:18:18 GMT

@IanM1 glad it works!! yes, you did the right thing to reply YES to SO

Enjoy your new service with PM

Re: Help! Porting failed, can't contact PM

computergeek541 — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 03:23:12 GMT

@softech wrote:
@IanM1 porting from SO require a little bit more work. Create another ticket with CSA and provide the phone number to be ported, IMEI of the phone currently using SO , SO PIN#.

You can open a ticket using chatbot. But I suggest you to call the porting team(number given by @esjliv ) first to see if you can just give them the information on the phone, quicker that way

I don't see ports from Speakout requiring any more or less work than the amount of effort required to port from most other carriers, at least if the port hadn't failed as it did in this case. Speakout does not have account numbes, but other than that, porting from them is pretty much the same. I do realize that there's some confusion about what to chooose as the carrier name if porting in during the activation process, but the number porting from Speakout can be done using the fully automated procedure in the Public Mobile Self Serve account. It's only a matter of using the IMEI of the device being used (or as you said, the Speakout PIN), but after doing that, it done the same way as porting from other wireless carriers.