@kjordison
I just finished porting my numbers over from Rogers. I did not cancel my Rogers account first. When I activated with Public Mobile, I asked them to do it for me instead. I did not have a temporary number, I did it all at the same time.
The first line went through without a problem, in under 2 hours, I lost service on my Rogers SIM. Person at the WoW Mobile asked me to then just put in the PM SIM which I did and I got service and everything worked. Calling, Receiving, Texting and Data.
The second line I did required a bit of setup to get the data and MMS Text messaging to work. The outgoing and regular SMS texting worked right away. I had to setup the Access Point Names for the MultiMedia Texts and Data to work properly. The line wasn't able to receive calls though. Apparently the port was half baked so they had to request it again from Public Mobiles side. Once that was done everything worked.
However, let Public Mobile port the numbers to ensure you will keep your number intact. When the port happens they will automatically close your account with Rogers. When I called Rogers afterwards, they said they would prorate everything and credit you the remaining days to your account. If you still have services with them, they would use it towards your bill. If not then they will cut you a cheque.
As For the SIM. In the old days, when phone numbers were attached to SIM cards you might have lost some of your contacts, but most phones now do not actually save numbers to the SIM since there is more and more data now and SIMs don't generally handle much data. it would be good to find out before you remove it, but in general it's just the carrier which is tied to the SIM Card. I hope that clears things up.
