Porting Your Phone Number For Cheap


January 12th, 2010

So I have been keeping my US cell phone, because the Intl data is nice and i didn’t want to lose my cell phone number.

But its kinda cost prohibitive. I dropped the Intl data, but the lowest package I can get is 40$ a month. Still expensive for a phone that i’m not going to use.

  • The lowest plan cricket has is 30$ a month.
  • Skype isn’t technically a VOIP, so they can’t port numbers
  • Vonage is too expensive and is prolly going out of business this summer
  • Google Voice is working on porting numbers, but aren’t there yet, but they would be ideal
  • Enter 3jam
    • For 4.99$ a month & a one time fee of 25$ you can port your cell phone number over
    • Same features as Google Voice: Voice mail transcription, mobile apps, etc
    • I doubt it is actually as good as google voice
      • it is written in PHP
    • You can port your number out also

So I signed up for 3Jam today. So I’ll keep you posted on how it all turns out.

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