FWIW a year ago Cingular split NJ into north and south and we had to give up a phone number and get a new one even though it had the SAME AREA CODE, just because it was considered a different market.
Another option is to shop another carrier.
that sounds like a rather unique situation.
two things to consider. if both phone numbers are on the same bill you are in the same BILLING market. ergo you can have a family plan.
Sorry, I should clarify. Originally we were both with Verizon. We switched to Cingular and requested a port of both # to a family share plan. That's when we were told the two phone numbers could not be on the same plan at Cingular. The old Verizon # and the new Cingular # were area code 609 but belonged to different markets for Cingular.
that makes more sense to me. VZW service aresprobabaly won match with ATT's.
but still. if your market numbers are the same you can combine to one billing acct and have a family plan
Someone needs to build a perfect billing system. hehe.
elmo01 Posts: 2342
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Service Provider: Bell Canada
Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:37 am
iowa wrote:
With today's technology, i don't see why they can't just migrate the number over to the other billing system?
internally speaking there are 2 billing systems the migration process from old to new is slow considering the number of accounts that are being moved over.the process is slow and tedious and it is unwise to do it all at once. planned completion is 2010
with all the mergers that have happened to ATT in the past few years st one point there were no less than 5 in place at one point in time.we got it down to 2 now.being done sub market by sub market every coupla months
I understand that. sprint is almost done merging thier billing systems. like i said i a previous post i'm going to invent the perfect billing system ha ha!
Shalalala Posts: 658
Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:27 pm
Again, to the original poster - if they are in the same billing market (which a majority of these numbers from these two states are) then it will not be an issue. Wash DC/Baltimore market consists of numbers from VA, MD, ME, WV, DC, and MA
Not every number with the same area code will be in the same market.
jdradcliff Posts: 5
Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:50 am
elmo01 wrote:
two things to consider. if both phone numbers are on the same bill you are in the same BILLING market. ergo you can have a family plan.
if you have separate bills (2 phones 2 account numbers 2 separate bills) you cannot have a family plan because you need to be on the same account.
the answer to your riddle is the billing market.look at your account number.
xxxxxxxx-xxx-xx
the first group is your BAN (billing acct number)
the second group is your sub market
the last group is your billing market (new jersey is 3
so if both of the phone numbers come from market 38 they can be in a family plan together.
Currently our two lines are from different areas.
VA Beach area, and I am from N. Connecticut.
She is with Verizon and started with Cingular, now AT&T Wireless.
We can not compare the account #s as we have different accounts.
My account # is xxxx21202. This does not represent your XX-XX-X breakdown.
The last person that responded, how is a CT phone # under a Washington/Baltimore market? Not New York or Boston?
elmo01 Posts: 2342
Phone Model: Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider: Bell Canada
Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:21 am
jdradcliff wrote:
elmo01 wrote:
two things to consider. if both phone numbers are on the same bill you are in the same BILLING market. ergo you can have a family plan.
if you have separate bills (2 phones 2 account numbers 2 separate bills) you cannot have a family plan because you need to be on the same account.
the answer to your riddle is the billing market.look at your account number.
xxxxxxxx-xxx-xx
the first group is your BAN (billing acct number)
the second group is your sub market
the last group is your billing market (new jersey is 3
so if both of the phone numbers come from market 38 they can be in a family plan together.
Currently our two lines are from different areas.
VA Beach area, and I am from N. Connecticut.
She is with Verizon and started with Cingular, now AT&T Wireless.
We can not compare the account #s as we have different accounts.
My account # is xxxx21202. This does not represent your XX-XX-X breakdown.
The last person that responded, how is a CT phone # under a Washington/Baltimore market? Not New York or Boston?
your accounts are resident in a different bill system that I alluded to earlier in the thread.ergo different format.
upon going back to the original post... VA beach and CT cannot be in a family plan...you gotta change one of the numbers if you want a family plan the billing system will not allow spanning 2 different markets in a family plan
But what i don't understand is why can't they just use number portability to manually migrate the number to the desired billing system?
jdradcliff Posts: 5
Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:55 am
elmo01 wrote:
your accounts are resident in a different bill system that I alluded to earlier in the thread.ergo different format.
upon going back to the original post... VA beach and CT cannot be in a family plan...you gotta change one of the numbers if you want a family plan the billing system will not allow spanning 2 different markets in a family plan
This is what I thought. As neither of us want to give up out number for right now, we are going to stay as it stands.
elmo01 Posts: 2342
Phone Model: Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider: Bell Canada
Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:43 am
iowa wrote:
But what i don't understand is why can't they just use number portability to manually migrate the number to the desired billing system?
you cant "migrate" a number from one market to another and then call it a local number.
the first 6 digits of a phone number define the rate center ie. 917-576 is NYC 717-728 is HARRISBURG PA.
you can use the numbers anywhere but cannot put the numbers on the same account regardless of what billing system you have them in
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