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by Fiaxhs 2581 days ago
> Want to port a SIM? I'll put your request in now but it will wait for 5 business days before it happens, and at any point if you or someone claiming to be you calls up to stop it, we stop it, no questions asked.

Funny because that's exactly what happens in France when you do so. I must have sounded a bit dumb when I asked when my number would be active when I changed from Tello to Verizon. I couldn't believe it was effective right away.
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SmellyGeekBoy 2581 days ago
It's been a while since I ported a number but the last time I did it took days here in the UK too. I just assumed it was typical inefficiency by the mobile operators rather than a security thing, however.
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amaccuish 2580 days ago
It takes days in the UK because we have a crappy system where instead of having a central register of number -> provider, calls are still routed to a ported number via the "donor" network, i.e. the network the number range belongs. So I just ported from O2 to EE, and my calls and texts will still go through o2, and then sent on to EE. Not very efficient.
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