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by cmeacham98 1378 days ago
Android phone: Probably - the worst that could happen is you get locked out of the play store and have to make a new account.

Google Fi: Depends on your country's laws for how phone number transfers work.

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> Android phone: Probably - the worst that could happen is you get locked out of the play store and have to make a new account.

If you have apps, movies etc bought from Google Play — those are gone too.

If you use a @gmail email address, you lose that too and you now have to tell people not use that any more.

Except for buying apps, none of these have anything to do with using Android.
I have a US Fi account and a US number. Can they just deplatform my account and take the number? I will loose banking and exchanges access
In the US, carriers are legally required to port your number to your new service, but they can delay the process by up to a week. Generally, it's much much faster (I've ported numbers in literal minutes), but I don't know how it would go with a banned account.