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Question to you guys about cell phone number ownership

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A few months ago, I started working for a new company. This one takes good care of me. They gave me a new suv, laptop, and phone. I don't have a personal car anymore, so the suv works great to my advantage since they let us use it for whatever. The laptop is also great since it's an i7 with an HD display so I gave my surface pro 3 to my boyfriend for school.

They gave me an iphone 6 with an unlimited everything plan with verizon. I've been using the personal hotspot quite a lot. Haha I just checked in the phone settings and this month I've used 27GB of data LTE. With that said, there's very little reason left to keep my personal phone.

I have not used my personal phone at all in the last 2 months. Everyone I know nowadays call me on my iphone. I'm thinking of just canceling my tmobile plan to save money.

Here's the thing. I've had my mobile number forever. Is there a way to cancel the plan and still retain ownership of this number just in case I wanna use it in the future?
 
Could you transfer it to a pay as you go contract? That way your number will remain active even with minimal use.
 
zombiekiller said:
How does pay as you go work? I've never had it before.
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I believe it is a prepaid mobile thing.
If you prepaid say $30 and you don't use your mobile, your number is active for 6 or 12 month before it expire, you keep your number alive that way.

Otherwise, your number is expired and will be given to someone else.
 
Telstra said:
I believe it is a prepaid mobile thing.
If you prepaid say $30 and you don't use your mobile, your number is active for 6 or 12 month before it expire, you keep your number alive that way.

Otherwise, your number is expired and will be given to someone else.
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Oh, so I pay $30 and it's good for like a year before I have to pay again? I'll go via this route, then.
 
Pay as you go is fine if you don't use your phone often, but I found it to be a pain in the ass when I had it. You have to keep buying phone cards at the store and then you call a number and type in a code to add the minutes onto your phone.

Actually I bet the process has changed since I used pay as you go 10 years ago... but it's worth looking into if you want to keep your number but you don't want to pay too much for a phone you're barely using.
 
zombiekiller said:
Oh, so I pay $30 and it's good for like a year before I have to pay again? I'll go via this route, then.
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$30 is a guess.
You have to go to a mobile phone companies website and check out their prices for prepaid mobile and how long you can keep the number alive before it is expired.
 
If everyone is calling you on your new number, why are you worrying about keeping the old one? With all the money the company is saving you on a vehicle, internet and phone, it shouldn't be a burden to maintain your old phone if you choose. Couldn't you just reduce your date plan down to a minimum and keep your number that way?
 
^ mobile plan the minimum is $15 per month
Prepaid you can use it for 6 or 12 months, which one do you choose?
 
sixthson said:
If everyone is calling you on your new number, why are you worrying about keeping the old one? With all the money the company is saving you on a vehicle, internet and phone, it shouldn't be a burden to maintain your old phone if you choose. Couldn't you just reduce your date plan down to a minimum and keep your number that way?
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Why do I want to keep the number? Because I've had this same one for years. While keeping it is kinda redundant, I also have an irrational emotional attachment to the number.
 
Check out Tracfone. They are a pay as you go plus have a BYOD program now.You can get 60 minutes with 3 months of service for $20.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression Tmobile doesn't do contract plans anymore. I thought that was what that whole "Uncarrier", thing was about. You just pay per month, and if you decide to change to another carrier there's no termination fee.

I've never heard of any carrier that lets you pay by the year, so I definitely wouldn't try and do that.

What you should do is use this moment to do some spring cleaning on your contact list. Over the years you've probably collected numbers that are no longer relevant, and you don't even talk to those people anymore. Just go through your Tmoblie phone, enter the numbers you do use into your Verizon phone, and send them a text letting them know that this your new number. Simple.
 
Vitamin said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression Tmobile doesn't do contract plans anymore. I thought that was what that whole "Uncarrier", thing was about. You just pay per month, and if you decide to change to another carrier there's no termination fee.

I've never heard of any carrier that lets you pay by the year, so I definitely wouldn't try and do that.

What you should do is use this moment to do some spring cleaning on your contact list. Over the years you've probably collected numbers that are no longer relevant, and you don't even talk to those people anymore. Just go through your Tmoblie phone, enter the numbers you do use into your Verizon phone, and send them a text letting them know that this your new number. Simple.
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No its prepaid,
if you don't use your phone, your number is still alive until it is expired say 6 months or 12 months depends on what they offer.

About texting and let people know,
it is impossible to do if you have thousands of contacts !!!
 
Telstra said:
No its prepaid,
if you don't use your phone, your number is still alive until it is expired say 6 months or 12 months depends on what they offer.

About texting and let people know,
it is impossible to do if you have thousands of contacts !!!
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Prepaid services are monthly in the US. I have no idea about Australia.

And as far as having thousands of contacts in your phone, that's something changing your phone number can try to prevent from happening. Nobody talks to thousands, or even a hundreds of people often enough to have all of those phone numbers in their contact list. Clean your damn phone, Telstra.
 
Just cancel the thing.

The number can't be that important. If you haven't won a lottery with it, it is a loser number anyway. Get someone to do it in needlepoint to hang over the couch.

Learn to let go of shit.
 
As others have advised, let it go. My folks moved and replaced their 20+ year old number. Now they don't have to worry about being bothered by people they din't care for. Just find additional ways besides the telephone to stay in touch with people, if that's your fear.
 
zombiekiller said:
Why do I want to keep the number? Because I've had this same one for years. While keeping it is kinda redundant, I also have an irrational emotional attachment to the number.
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I think the question was why paying whatever to keep the number for whatever reason is a problem when you have such a great job and obviously can well afford to.
 
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