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Alec11
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

I need a port to transfer my old number can’t do it without a port request 

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maximum_gato
Mayor / Maire

@Alec11 

Generally without the sim card you can verbally approve the port request by calling your old provider immediately after submitting the port request, verifying you are the account holder and then authorizing the port request.

However the chatr website does not mention anything about how to port out of it with or without a Sim card. A port request can be approved in written form as well so you may need to investigate a little further.

Perhaps it's parent company Roger's handles this kind of situation as they have a dedicated "port out" department that handles these types of requests among others.....I'm sure there's a winback offer sprinkled in there for good measure.

Try the Roger's phone # first to glean some info from them.....if they refer you back to chatr just bear in mind that most of their phone support comes at cost.....

Name of Charge.    Amount

 Sim activation         Free

Enroll in auto-pay    Free

Account information request    $8

Change account information    $8

Password reset—My chatr account   $8

Change plan.     $8

Data Plus     $8

Top-up.        $8

Relevant phone #'s.....

Spoiler
Roger's porting out department phone # 1 877 327 8503
Chatr customer service phone # 1 800 485 9745

 

Then you would need to get a new sim and apply it to that account and the account needs to be active. Then you can re-do the transfer.

Alec11
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

I don’t have my old SIM card for chatr 

maximum_gato
Mayor / Maire

@Alec11 

If the original phone number sent isn't working for you use the one I send to your private messages.

dust2dust
Mayor / Maire

What matters is whether the browser session has logged in to a google account. My primary browser with several kinds of blocking and filtering including much of google works fine for the links. My more open browser (Chrome even) without all that stuff and not logged in to google works.

Yup. Open to all as far as I know. 

EDIT: Just confirmed using my work computer. We're not allowed to use Gmail on our work computers and this link worked. 🙂

maximum_gato
Mayor / Maire

@dust2dust 

I dunno....when I click on the link it brings me to a window asking me to choose which Google account to use just like the forms here....?

@Chalupa_Batman 

My apologies if the link is open to all....?

Which number are you talking about? The one I sent you works just fine. I just called it.

??? It works for me. Are you using a different phone?

maximum_gato
Mayor / Maire

@Alec11 

Did you call the phone number sent to your private message box? You will need to imput the phone # to be ported before it will allow you to connect with a member of the porting team. They will ask you for the name on the old account, old account # for the phone # to be ported. As mentioned make sure you have the old Sim card in your phone to reply YES to the PAT ( porting authorization text ) within 90 minutes of recieving it.

Alec11
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

No I didn’t talk to anyone as the number is out of service 

What do you mean "nothing"? Did you talk to a human?

Alec11
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

I’ve tried going through the link and calling the number but still nothing 

maximum_gato
Mayor / Maire

@Chalupa_Batman 

You might want to mention when providing Google.com links that the customer needs to have a Gmail account to use your links. Not everyone uses Gmail.

Chalupa_Batman
Mayor / Maire

I'm sure someone sent you the porting team number already. If not, just sent.

Alec11
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Im coming to public mobile but

Which direction? Are you coming to Public or leaving?

Alec11
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

I received the text but the request was canceled since it was past 90mins now I’m in need of a new port request. Please help me .

Alec11
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

I need another port request as the last one expired. Can’t transfer phone number without one 

BKNS27
Mayor / Maire

@Alec11 

To port in or out. The old carrier account must be active and payment are up to date so your old SIM is still working.

Activate the new SIM or to the new carrier to active the SIM for you.

With the old SIM in your phone, wait for the text confirming you are porting over to the new carrier with YES. You have 90 minutes to reply or porting will be cancelled.

The old SIM will continue to work until porting is completed…up to 2 hours.

Power off your phone after porting is completed then switch the SIM and power back on.

dust2dust
Mayor / Maire

Are just now signing up or are you an existing customer? You are the one to start the transfer. This happens during sign up or in your account in change number. Leave the old sim in a phone to confirm the transfer.

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