[TriLUG] OT - cheapest way to keep a phone number?

[Keith Merryman via TriLUG]

Jeremy,
I've done this with one of my US house phone numbers.  Because it was
a land line it was a bit more complicated, first I ported it to a
throw-away cell phone carrier for $10.  After it was a "cell" number I
made a new, separate from my main, google voice account and ported the
number into gvoice for $20.  Now I've got no monthly fees, and all
calls and texts get automatically forwarded to my "real" number.
~Keith

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Jeremy Davis via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> Hey folks..I have a family member who moved to Japan and we mostly do not
> need to maintain her US phone line any longer. However, we would like keep
> the number and forward to texts and calls to either her new phone in Japan
> or to an online service perhaps like Google Voice or whatever.
>
> Any advice on a cheap and easy way to do this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeremy Davis