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Article #280Re: how's sprint these days
From: Adam H. Kerman
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 23:14
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 23:14
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smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote: >On 5/28/2013 4:05 PM, Cydrome Leader wrote: >>Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote: >>>bje@ripco.com says... >>>>Sprint seems to cater to the high-end, where unlimited everything is more >>>>important than competitive pricing. Even their "family plans" are hard to >>>>swallow. >>>Pagepluscellular.com has unlimited pricing plans that seem reasonable >>>and no contract. I have been using them for almost 4 years now. Since >>>I hate talking on the telephone I keep to the pay as you go minutes and >>I'm going to guess you have nobody to talk to in the first place. >>I don't want to try to port my number which I like over to rats&rodents >>cellullar.biz >>Has anybody ported a cell number to google voice and then back again, if >>this is even possible? >>I do have a work phone, which sucks, but is free. >Porting is law. You can port your number whichever and whenever the fuck >many times you want to, assuming the accounts you're porting away from >are in good standing. >I have ported numbers to and fro Google Voice without issue. Mandatory participation in porting is required in some instances, but not others. Porting participation is definitely NOT mandatory with VoIP. VoIP isn't even regulated by FCC in most instances, although it is with cable. Google Voice might indeed choose to drop out of porting without regulatory consequence.
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