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HarryisPaul April 2nd 11 04:11 PM

A question about switching cell phone service..
 
In article ,
says...

True North wrote:


"Harryk" wrote in message ...

True North wrote:


"paul@byc" wrote in message ...
On 3/29/2011 9:01 PM,
wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:11:23 -0400, Gene
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:10:02 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

For lots of reasons, my wife is getting tired of Cellular 1 and is
going to switch over to Verizon. OK so Verizon Wireless told her that
with the new cell phones comes new phone numbers, and i thought that
was strange that you can't keep your existing number, but then again,
I don't know much about it. But a couple friends of mine said that
there was a law passed not long ago that would allow you to keep your
existing phone number regardless of who your new carrier was.

Any fact to this? and/or how do I find out?

Thanks!

Put your current number in this form and see if you can..... although
Verizon markets the fact that you can keep your number, it looks like
there may be exceptions.....

My phone has an 866 number, I doubt that is portable.

If you had tried harder, you might have gotten a 666 number.

********************

I believe those are reserved for the Dopey Army irregulars.



Hmmm. You think they are bright enough to be in The Devil's Army?
:)

**********

What they lack in intelligence, they more than make up for in their
devious actions.

Go clean up your yard and STFU, dummy.


Leave him alone, he's just plain stupid!

HarryisPaul April 2nd 11 04:11 PM

A question about switching cell phone service..
 
In article , princecraft51
@gmail.com says...

"L G" wrote in message
...

True North wrote:


"Harryk" wrote in message ...

True North wrote:


"paul@byc" wrote in message ...
On 3/29/2011 9:01 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:11:23 -0400, Gene
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:10:02 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

For lots of reasons, my wife is getting tired of Cellular 1 and is
going to switch over to Verizon. OK so Verizon Wireless told her that
with the new cell phones comes new phone numbers, and i thought that
was strange that you can't keep your existing number, but then again,
I don't know much about it. But a couple friends of mine said that
there was a law passed not long ago that would allow you to keep your
existing phone number regardless of who your new carrier was.

Any fact to this? and/or how do I find out?

Thanks!

Put your current number in this form and see if you can..... although
Verizon markets the fact that you can keep your number, it looks like
there may be exceptions.....

My phone has an 866 number, I doubt that is portable.

If you had tried harder, you might have gotten a 666 number.

********************

I believe those are reserved for the Dopey Army irregulars.



Hmmm. You think they are bright enough to be in The Devil's Army?
:)

**********

What they lack in intelligence, they more than make up for in their
devious actions.

Go clean up your yard and STFU, dummy.

********************

....and to prove my point.........


What's devious about someone telling you to clean up that ****box you
live in?

L G[_32_] April 3rd 11 02:28 AM

A question about switching cell phone service..
 
True North wrote:


"L G" wrote in message
...

True North wrote:


"Harryk" wrote in message ...

True North wrote:


"paul@byc" wrote in message ...
On 3/29/2011 9:01 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:11:23 -0400, Gene
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:10:02 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

For lots of reasons, my wife is getting tired of Cellular 1 and is
going to switch over to Verizon. OK so Verizon Wireless told her
that
with the new cell phones comes new phone numbers, and i thought that
was strange that you can't keep your existing number, but then
again,
I don't know much about it. But a couple friends of mine said that
there was a law passed not long ago that would allow you to keep
your
existing phone number regardless of who your new carrier was.

Any fact to this? and/or how do I find out?

Thanks!

Put your current number in this form and see if you can..... although
Verizon markets the fact that you can keep your number, it looks like
there may be exceptions.....

My phone has an 866 number, I doubt that is portable.

If you had tried harder, you might have gotten a 666 number.

********************

I believe those are reserved for the Dopey Army irregulars.



Hmmm. You think they are bright enough to be in The Devil's Army?
:)

**********

What they lack in intelligence, they more than make up for in their
devious actions.

Go clean up your yard and STFU, dummy.

********************

.....and to prove my point.........

That was "devious", dummy? The truth hurts, eh?

True North[_3_] April 3rd 11 02:53 AM

A question about switching cell phone service..
 


"L G" wrote in message
...

True North wrote:


"L G" wrote in message
...

True North wrote:


"Harryk" wrote in message ...

True North wrote:


"paul@byc" wrote in message ...
On 3/29/2011 9:01 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:11:23 -0400, Gene
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:10:02 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

For lots of reasons, my wife is getting tired of Cellular 1 and is
going to switch over to Verizon. OK so Verizon Wireless told her that
with the new cell phones comes new phone numbers, and i thought that
was strange that you can't keep your existing number, but then again,
I don't know much about it. But a couple friends of mine said that
there was a law passed not long ago that would allow you to keep your
existing phone number regardless of who your new carrier was.

Any fact to this? and/or how do I find out?

Thanks!

Put your current number in this form and see if you can..... although
Verizon markets the fact that you can keep your number, it looks like
there may be exceptions.....

My phone has an 866 number, I doubt that is portable.

If you had tried harder, you might have gotten a 666 number.

********************

I believe those are reserved for the Dopey Army irregulars.



Hmmm. You think they are bright enough to be in The Devil's Army?
:)

**********

What they lack in intelligence, they more than make up for in their
devious actions.

Go clean up your yard and STFU, dummy.

********************

.....and to prove my point.........

That was "devious", dummy? The truth hurts, eh?

*********************

Well... maybe more asinine in your case.


Tim April 4th 11 01:13 PM

A question about switching cell phone service..
 
HA! I got the new phone which is smaller than my older one but has a
lot more features. Still a flip-phone though. Now I have to switch
over a bunch of numbers. And unfortunately, I couldnt' keep my old
existing number, because cellular 1 was a local company and I had a
local number. Verizon doesn't have a local office so i was issued a
new number. so got boned there, but otherswise.....

Now I wonder how long this one will hold up?

Harryk April 4th 11 01:33 PM

A question about switching cell phone service..
 
Tim wrote:
HA! I got the new phone which is smaller than my older one but has a
lot more features. Still a flip-phone though. Now I have to switch
over a bunch of numbers. And unfortunately, I couldnt' keep my old
existing number, because cellular 1 was a local company and I had a
local number. Verizon doesn't have a local office so i was issued a
new number. so got boned there, but otherswise.....

Now I wonder how long this one will hold up?



How long the phone holds up depends upon how much you abuse it.
My wife has an LG flip phone she uses a lot, and she usually gets two
years out of them before she gets a new one.

On the other hand, I have an old buddy with an equilibrium problem that
I suspect is caused by single malt. At least once and usually twice a
summer, he manages to fall off the dock into the drink and he always has
his cell phone with him. So, he gets at least one new phone a year.

If you are talking about switching over phone numbers stored in your old
phone, Verizon should be able to do that at no cost at one of its
offices. There also is an on-line Verizon stored phone numbers manager
application which lets you type the numbers you want to safe on your
computer, load them up to the app on line and it will download them to
your cell phone. I am sure most of the larger providers have an
identical service.

I use gmail to type in, store, and download my cell phone numbers. I
like it better than the verizon app that does pretty much the same thing.





Tim April 4th 11 02:03 PM

A question about switching cell phone service..
 
On Apr 4, 7:33*am, Harryk wrote:


If you are talking about switching over phone numbers stored in your old
phone, Verizon should be able to do that at no cost at one of its
offices. There also is an on-line Verizon stored phone numbers manager
application which lets you type the numbers you want to safe on your
computer, load them up to the app on line and it will download them to
your cell phone. I am sure most of the larger providers have an
identical service.

I use gmail to type in, store, and download my cell phone numbers. I
like it better than the verizon app that does pretty much the same thing.


I Might look into that, Harry.

Tim April 4th 11 11:41 PM

A question about switching cell phone service..
 
On Apr 4, 8:03*am, Tim wrote:
On Apr 4, 7:33*am, Harryk wrote:



If you are talking about switching over phone numbers stored in your old
phone, Verizon should be able to do that at no cost at one of its
offices. There also is an on-line Verizon stored phone numbers manager
application which lets you type the numbers you want to safe on your
computer, load them up to the app on line and it will download them to
your cell phone. I am sure most of the larger providers have an
identical service.


I use gmail to type in, store, and download my cell phone numbers. I
like it better than the verizon app that does pretty much the same thing.


I Might look into that, Harry.


man, my new phone got a workout today. I'm kinda getting the hang
(sort of) to texting. even for a common key pad. it keeps my eyes
open. But getting tot he 'contact' page is kind of a pain. I have to
run though about 4 different hoops to get there. Eh, I know I'll find
a short cut. But on the good side, I've already taken a couple
pictures of my foot.

Harryk April 5th 11 12:02 AM

A question about switching cell phone service..
 
Tim wrote:
On Apr 4, 8:03 am, wrote:
On Apr 4, 7:33 am, wrote:



If you are talking about switching over phone numbers stored in your old
phone, Verizon should be able to do that at no cost at one of its
offices. There also is an on-line Verizon stored phone numbers manager
application which lets you type the numbers you want to safe on your
computer, load them up to the app on line and it will download them to
your cell phone. I am sure most of the larger providers have an
identical service.
I use gmail to type in, store, and download my cell phone numbers. I
like it better than the verizon app that does pretty much the same thing.

I Might look into that, Harry.


man, my new phone got a workout today. I'm kinda getting the hang
(sort of) to texting. even for a common key pad. it keeps my eyes
open. But getting tot he 'contact' page is kind of a pain. I have to
run though about 4 different hoops to get there. Eh, I know I'll find
a short cut. But on the good side, I've already taken a couple
pictures of my foot.




Put your foot for sale on ebay. Someone will make an offer. :)

L G[_32_] April 5th 11 12:30 AM

A question about switching cell phone service..
 
Harryk wrote:
Tim wrote:
HA! I got the new phone which is smaller than my older one but has a
lot more features. Still a flip-phone though. Now I have to switch
over a bunch of numbers. And unfortunately, I couldnt' keep my old
existing number, because cellular 1 was a local company and I had a
local number. Verizon doesn't have a local office so i was issued a
new number. so got boned there, but otherswise.....

Now I wonder how long this one will hold up?



How long the phone holds up depends upon how much you abuse it.
My wife has an LG flip phone she uses a lot, and she usually gets two
years out of them before she gets a new one.

On the other hand, I have an old buddy with an equilibrium problem
that I suspect is caused by single malt. At least once and usually
twice a summer, he manages to fall off the dock into the drink and he
always has his cell phone with him. So, he gets at least one new phone
a year.

If you are talking about switching over phone numbers stored in your
old phone, Verizon should be able to do that at no cost at one of its
offices. There also is an on-line Verizon stored phone numbers manager
application which lets you type the numbers you want to safe on your
computer, load them up to the app on line and it will download them to
your cell phone. I am sure most of the larger providers have an
identical service.

I use gmail to type in, store, and download my cell phone numbers. I
like it better than the verizon app that does pretty much the same thing.




"numbers you want to safe"? Were is Donnie?


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