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

[Warren Myers via TriLUG]

Weird.

I've been transferring numbers off and on for years. Never paid once to 
do it.


On 17-11-29 16:07, Keith Merryman via TriLUG wrote:
> The $20 to google voice was on Sep 20, 2013, other was a few weeks
> before that.  Check out the first sentence in Option 1 here:
> https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1065667
>
>
> ~Keith
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Warren Myers via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>> It shouldn't cost anything to transfer a number to a different carrier.
> How
>> long ago did it cost $10 and then $20?
>>
>>
>> On 17-11-28 13:48, Keith Merryman via TriLUG wrote:
>>> 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