All - question. I leave for a year of traveling shortly, and would love to avoid losing my cell phone number in my absence. I can't justify keeping my Cingular service active at $50/mo in fees/taxes to Cingular when I'm out of the country (and I have no intention of taking the phone with me). (I called Cingular, and their cheapest plan is $40/month, so figure $50 w/taxes -- they had nothing else cheaper I could switch to.)
I am NOT under contract, so if anyone is aware of anything I can do to port my number somewhere else any pay a minimal fee/month just to keep the number for when I come back, I'd be very interested.
Thanks!
Last edited by quarth on Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:29 pm, edited 1 time in total
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elmo01 Posts: 2342
Phone Model: Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider: Bell Canada
Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:10 pm
Reduced Rate Suspend (RRS) allows customer to voluntarily suspend their wireless service on a temporary basis (up to 6 months) for $10 per month.
quarth Posts: 2
Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:07 pm
elmo01 wrote:
Reduced Rate Suspend (RRS) allows customer to voluntarily suspend their wireless service on a temporary basis (up to 6 months) for $10 per month.
Thank you! I just spoke with someone at Cingular/AT&T customer service, and they indicated that the maximum duration of suspension is 4 months, but then put me on hold and then told me I am allowed to suspend the service on my account up to 8 times; thus, I'd have to call back 3x over the course of the year (1x every 4 months) to keep re-suspending, and it will cost me $120 + taxes.
I'm still trying to decide if that's worth it. sound right to everyone else? FYI, the number I received to call back what I assume was their win-back department was 1-866-514-8505.
Well if you don't when you come back and re sign up, you can ask them to do a special # request when the rep is activiating, but there's no guarantee that your number won't be recycled to someone else.
elmo01 Posts: 2342
Phone Model: Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider: Bell Canada
Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:07 am
quarth wrote:
elmo01 wrote:
Reduced Rate Suspend (RRS) allows customer to voluntarily suspend their wireless service on a temporary basis (up to 6 months) for $10 per month.
Thank you! I just spoke with someone at Cingular/AT&T customer service, and they indicated that the maximum duration of suspension is 4 months, but then put me on hold and then told me I am allowed to suspend the service on my account up to 8 times; thus, I'd have to call back 3x over the course of the year (1x every 4 months) to keep re-suspending, and it will cost me $120 + taxes.
I'm still trying to decide if that's worth it. sound right to everyone else? FYI, the number I received to call back what I assume was their win-back department was 1-866-514-8505.
Thanks, again.
what I pasted was right from the rule book.what you would have to do is do the vacation suspend for 6 months and then reactivate for 1 complete month (billing cycle) and then resuspend
it works out to the same as your etf basically. but if you need your number. you need your number
jose210 Posts: 1
Sat May 24, 2008 5:09 pm
Call AT&T and ask them about interlata preferred number service. You have to have a landline somewhere in the AT&T service area to do this, I think. Port it over as a perferred number for $5.99 a month plus long distance
Barciur Posts: 246
Phone Model: Nokia 5300
Service Provider: T-Mobile USA/Plus GSM
Sat May 24, 2008 11:13 pm
You can also port number to ATT GoPhone or T-mobile To Go and simply add $100 to it. saves you $20 and rush for suspending, resuspending etc.
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