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From: Lobster on 25 Jun 2008 12:10
simonclark123(a)hotmail.com wrote:
> On 10 Jun, 11:34, Lobster <davidlobsterpot...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> simonclark...(a)hotmail.com wrote:
>>> On 10 Jun, 10:43, Lobster <davidlobsterpot...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> SWBO is currently finishing a 100% cashback contract, on Orange, and
>>>> wants to take out a new similar cashback deal. However AFAICS all the
>>>> decent cashback deals at the moment are with Orange (unless anyone can
>>>> point me in a different direction?), which would prevent her from
>>>> porting her number from the old contract to the new one.
>>>> I'm therefore wondering about porting the old number to a temporary PAYG
>>>> sim card with another network, thereby terminating the old Orange
>>>> contract; starting a new Orange contract and then porting the number in
>>>> to that.
>>>> How quickly could that process happen?
>>>> Is there anything to watch out for in terms of not being able to PAC out
>>>> of the PAYG SIM, such as any network not allowing it?
>>>> Or is there a better way of achieving this?!
>>> I have done this a couple of times in the past, using a Virgin sim.
>>> Any PAC code is valid for 30 days.
>>> Hence on the 31st day after being given the first PAC code you can
>>> request another PAC code and go back to Orange.
>> Ok, thanks, so if Day 31 is the day you request the 2nd PAC from Virgin
>> (and straightaway give it to Orange), on what day do you give the 1st
>> PAC to Virgin? Can you do it on Day 29 or 30, ie the minimum possible?
>> I'm thinking in terms of how long SWMBO would be without her 'proper'
>> contract phone (ie with the 'correct' number)...

> Don't think I'd cut it quite so fine, even with the advent of 2 day
> porting nowadays (used to be 7).The gaining network has to put in an
> application to port the number before the PAC runs out, then the
> number should port within 2 days.
>
> I wouldn't want to be talking to Virgin about porting a number out
> before it's even ported in!

Just following this up... the number's due to port over to a Tesco PAYG
sim tomorrow, which will kill off the old Orange contract; the new
Orange contract has just started in parallel today (on a random new
number), so as soon as we dare, we need to ask for a PAC code from Tesco
to give back to Orange, for the new contract...

Question is - how soon dare we do this? Is there anything actually
dodgy about doing it asap - other than Tesco maybe being a bit stroppy,
can they do refuse or do anything about it? (We haven't actually even
put any credit on the PAYG sim!)

David
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