I fixed that and voila! A phone call to my former VOiP number now came through to my cell phone! Done and done! Aha, I had set the Do Not Disturb settings to not forward on the weekends! Sheesh, I’m not used to so many powerful options. Once I set up the forwarder to my cell phone number it … still didn’t work. Turns out, this step can be important if you’d like this number associated with a certain Google account. I signed up for Google Voice using that Google account so it would be associated with that email address. Note that I have a Google Apps for Work account where I can use my own domain ( ). Aha, I needed to set things up in the Google Voice account. Porting complete! After just about 24 hours, I got an email from Google Voice saying that the porting was complete! I called the phone and it … didn’t really work.The status was now in progress and it said it could take up to 24 hours. Remember, we now have nothing more to do with the first VOiP company. The account number is the number you’re porting and the PIN is your PIN from T-Mobile. If you click on the error link (I had to do it a few times), it will give you two fields for your account number and the PIN.

Hmm, there hadn’t been anywhere to actually enter the PIN. The status at first was an error message saying that I didn’t enter the PIN. This time when I checked if the number was available for porting, it was! Yay! So I started the process and all went pretty smoothly. Now that the number was registered with a mobile provider (T-Mobile) and no longer my VOiP company, I went into my Google Voice account and started the porting process. Start the porting process to Google Voice.She also reminded me that my account number was my phone number (the new, now ported number) and my PIN was the one I created in their shop. I waited those two days and sure enough, my old cell phone took over my original VOiP number! Woo hoo! I called the rep at T-Mobile and she confirmed that it had gone through. There was even a date (2 days later) when the system said it would be done. This was good news, she says sometimes there are errors. After a bit, it said that it was In Progress. We waited a few minutes for the status report. At first, we weren’t sure what to do, but the sales rep at T-Mobile suggested to try the phone number as the account number and do 0000 as the PIN. Turns out they don’t use account numbers or PINs. My former VOiP provider was 8×8 (formerly Packet8) and I called them to get my account number and PIN. Ask them to start the porting process on the spot.I would lose that number too (not that I cared). NOTE: you’re going to lose this $25. The phone had a temporary number which would go away when the porting was done. She didn’t really understand, but I was mostly asking to make sure she didn’t say anything like, “Oh, there’s a 600 day waiting period before you can port your number out.” Because I had my own phone, I paid only $25 for their cheapest prepaid plan. I was open with the sales rep and told her that I was going to port it out right after it went through to Google Voice. Walk into T-Mobile. I brought an old phone (happened to be a T-Mobile phone, but I don’t think it terribly matters) and ask for a pre-paid plan.Make sure you have the account number, PIN (if they have one), phone number, billing address, and your name. Here are the basic steps to port your non-mobile phone to Google Voice. $380/year savings, 2 devices unplugged, 1 ethernet cable freed up + a zillion features I didn’t have from my VOiP provider! Unplug devices (cordless phone & VOiP box) and declutter.Enable text messages from the number (my VOiP account didn’t have text/SMS).Take advantage of my unlimited talk and text cell phone plan.Get that phone number to work with my iPhone’s contacts (through Google Voice or Hangouts apps).Get my work phone number associated with my Google Apps for Work account.

Get my work and personal life down to a single phone such that my (old) work line would forward to my cell phone but still keep/be the old work line number.

If you want to receive a call to the number, it will forward to another phone (e.g. In the simplest terms, it is a phone number forwarder. Please understand what Google Voice is and isn’t. I read about how difficult this was all supposed to be, so I started with caution, but I started Wednesday and Saturday I had my brand new, shiny Google Voice number up and running! Save hundreds per year switching your VOiP to Google Voice.

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