@Community_QA_ wrote:
@computergeek541
so the text send to the phone number that the person won't receive on the old sim. and the person won't receive it unless they are smart enough to reboot it? Weird. and funny
Public Mobile can't send the message to the old carrier's SIM card because of the way that Public Mobile has assigned the phone number to the Public Mobile account already. When someone ports to Public Mobile, text messages automatically route to the Public Mobile service if the text message was sent by another Telus customer. As Public Mobile is simply sending the instructions to reboot the device to the phone number, the system keeps the message within the carrier. It never used to be this way, but I also discovered recently durng a number port, incoming phone calls from other Telus customers also go to the Public Mobile service - even before any verfication of the porting process has taken place. What does this mean? This is a serious security flaw that affects all non-Telus customers because of the way that any phone number can be temporarily intercepted if the other person contacting the Telus customer is calling from another Telus service. I've brought this up several times with Public Mobile, but quite shockingly, Telus has been doing it this way since 2007. I believe that Bell also does number porting the same way. The way that number porting should be done (in my opinion) is for the phone nubmer being ported in should only be assigned to the account after porting verficiation has been completed (which is what some other carriers do).
