Want to stick it to your cell carrier by porting your cell quantity to Google Voice? Now you may!

On Wednesday, January nineteenth, Google Voice began allowing choose customers to switch their private numbers to Google Voice for a one-time price of $20. Although the feature is still in limited launch, Google has said that they intend to make the characteristic out there to all Google Voice users "within the close to future." Terrific, proper? Not entirely!

Transferring an current cell quantity effectively ends your contract together with your cell service provider. That can mean early termination fees. What's more, after porting your number, you will not have the ability to use your cell phone. Not till you've signed up for yet another cell plan, gotten yet another set of ten digits and set up name forwarding online. These things could or may not be a giant deal to you, of course.

Nonetheless all for porting your phone number? Need to discover out should you're among the many Randomly-Chosen Elect who even can make the transfer at this cut-off date? Here is easy methods to verify!


Step 1 Log into your Google Voice account


Step 2 Click on on Settings » Voice settings


Step 3 Within the Telephones tab, search for Change / Port


In case you find "Change / Port" subsequent to your Google Voice quantity, congratulations, you are among the users admitted to Google's test group. If you would like, you may now go forward and actually port your cellular number.

Step 4 Click on Change / Port & select "I want to use my cellular number instead."


Step 5 Enter your cell quantity to see whether or not or not it may be ported


Step 6 Read and accept the terms and situations


Step 7 Verify your cellphone


Step 8 Verify your account and check out


Step 9 That is it!

Your cell phone quantity is now associated along with your Google Voice account.
Warnings

* Your service plan shall be terminated once you port your quantity to Google Voice and your carrier could charge you an early termination fee.
* Google Voice will not be a mobile phone service provider. Once porting is complete, you won't be able to receive calls to your mobile phone till you arrange a new cell phone service plan and request a new quantity and add the new number to your Google Voice account as a forwarding phone.
* You might be unable to obtain text messages for as much as three enterprise days after the porting course of is complete.
* Your Google Voice quantity shall be changed by the number you are porting. It is going to remain in your account for 90 days.