Does anyone have any recent experience with porting in a number from Vonage? Specifically, I'm wondering how long it should take.
We came back to a 3-service bundle and after a bit of confusion from the loyalty rep, I was told I could have the number ported. We've had it for two years.
The installer came last week (Monday the 21st) and did the TV install and told me it could take up to 5 days for the number to port over. In the meantime, my Vonage box is still active with my number, but Aliant had to give me a temp number for the time being (fine with that). I have one phone plugged into the router so I have that number, and my cordless phone is still plugged into my Vonage box. I will know when it's ported.
It's been 10 days (6 business days or so), and before I call Aliant to try and find out, I'd like to see if anyone here had any experience going my direction.
If your Vonage account supports call forwarding, you could forward your number to the temporary one. I've done that a few times, when switching business customers to VoIP.
Yea - I thought of that for about a minute. I still have access to my Vonage number, and if I start using the temporary number then people will start using that. I don't want anyone to ever know about the temporary number.
My experience is that number porting typically takes about one or two days. Five days would be a worst case scenario. After 5 days call the new service provider if the port is not done. It may have failed due to a technicality.
Press *67 and then dial. It will block caller ID on the call. The caller ID at the other end will display as anonymous or private. Some people block calls with no caller ID.
Talked to Aliant yesterday and they said their technical team are still working on the port.
After much Googling, I come to find that Vonage are complete di**s when it comes to porting a number OUT. They will instantly port a number IN, but when you want to leave you're told "oh, we are unable to do that". Here comes the fighting I think. I'm hoping that Aliant can fight that fight and get my number out. I'm still subscribed to Vonage for another three weeks so I have no issue having two phones on the go for the time being.
Yes, you should have no contact with Vonage and have Aliant handle the porting. If you contact them before the porting request comes from Aliant, people can lose their numbers.
phone the crtc and put in a complaint about vonage.tell then everything about what they are doing.if you don't than vonage will keep screwing everyone over
The CSR at Aliant asked me to wait a few more days and then call them back. She assured me that their back-end team was working on it. Again - I still have the service and number, and I'm not about to call Vonage myself at this point because yes - they'll close my account "so Aliant can take the number" then delete my number "whoops!"
I will contact the CCTS mid week if Aliant still can't get the number. I'm so done with this, I just want things to work they way they are supposed to work. And YES - I know that I should be able to take my number ANYWHERE, to ANY provider (as long as I'm in the same geographical area naturally).
You might need to get a new phone number…
If you are transferring services from:
*Voice over IP (VoIP) to landline
*VoIP to mobile
*Landline to VoIP
*Mobile to VoIP
For anyone following (or are interested) - Number port was finally completed yesterday, December 5. That makes about SIX WEEKS from the time I placed my order, but I have my number. I just kept on them (BA), they kept me updated, I was patient and polite when dealing with them. They even reimbursed me for the last month of my Vonage service for the inconvenience (since I could NOT cancel until the port was complete or I'd lose the number).
Glad to know it worked out for you. Sounds like Vonage was a pain.
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