@r1lee wrote:
Dankaroo,
No the temporary number that PM gave me (when I use the pm SIM and call my wife) it shows up as 647-AAA-AAAA . But my attempt to call from my wife's phone to thatt that number goes to an unknown person voicemail.
My freedom number and sim still work 100% so the port hasn't happened yet .
Public Mobile doesn't use temporary phone numbers, at least not in the sense in the same ways that other carriers do.
Some carriers actually autoamtically assign a tempoary phone number when you try to port in at the same time as activation. Public Mobile does not do this.
As for taking a new phone number at the time of activation, and then once activated and then requesting a port in, the very second that you submit an incoming phone number porting request, you lose access to the phone number that you activated with. At this point, you will no longer have access to any incoming calls or text messages/MMS messages until the porting is complete. This is contrast to other carriers such as Rogers who only make the change in number only after the phone number transfer has completed.
What is strange is that Public Mobile has already assigned that phone number again. I would have thought that they would have put the phone number in an aging pool, for a duration of I believe is 90 days, as is the norm for carriers after a phone number goes out of service. Also strange is the fact that the number that you originally took from Public Mobile should no longer be showing when you call your wife.
