@mymo wrote:
Thank you @computergeek541 !
This was my concern.
Is this because the moment I port line B into the plan from Line A, that Line A number is released completely from my ownership?
If I set up call forwarding from Line A to Line B first (using fongo or similar) and then tried to port Line B into PM plan some time later will I still lost that old Line A phone number?
(My issue is the Line B I've had for many more years and really it needs to be the primary for me.)
There's no such thing as porting from Public to Public. Public won't allow it. If you port out B to another carrier and then port it back into Public Line A, the number that was at Line A is lost. You can't forward to or from an inactive phone number.
From a technical viewpoint, they could allow what you're trying to accomplish, but Public Mobile won't do it. Customer service has been told not to. In theory, you could also do the porting out of Line B's number and then port it into Line A. You would then have to activate a new Public Mobile account and try to retrieve the old phone number and have it assigned to the new account. However, as I said, moderators have been instructed not to do swapping of this type, and I fear that such a request of reactivating an old phone number might be seen as amounting to the same by them.
