Con_Alma;782295 wrote:Portability should enable you to transfer that land line phone number to any new device you choose so long as you are the registered account owner on the new line.
Am I not understanding that correctly?
I've had the same home number since 1990 when I move back to Ohio.
For the most part that is correct. To port a landline to a cell phone that cell phone has to have a presence in that area. For instance I would not be able to take my home number (if I had one) and port it to like Cincinnati bell, Cricket, and a myriad of companies because they do not have anythin glocal. Also the landline needs to have a contrat to do so. A small, local landline does have have such a contract and and cannot port their home numbers over. I am not sure that is legal but anyways.
More and more people are keeping their cell phone numbers even when they were moving out of state and such. We used to get people weekly who had moved to the area and wanted to change their cell number to a local number but now that rarely happens. People are more and more using cell phone as their only phone number and dont want to change it. Also, people used to change it so landlines could call them locally, but with everyone have cell phones it does not matter.
I have had mine for probably 7=8 years. I was the first to get the exchange as I tested it for a couple of months before it being released.