Multiple porting

Lucky_Luke_3

Hello everybody,

I am currently on an Orange contract and am nearing the end of the 12-month tie-in.
I am currently getting 100% cashback from the Mobile Outlet (terrible story, but anyway they end up paying each time I go to Moneyclaim).
I want to stay with Orange since they are now the only ones including the famous 07744 numbers (to call abroad) in their free minutes. Regarding my new contract, I am sure that, even if I haggle, I won't get 12 months of cashback direct from Orange so would like to use another company like TMO (but not them!) to get full cashback.

As I would like to keep my number, do you think I could ask to port it to a PAYG (other than Orange), and then use e2save or others to subscribe to a new Orange contract by porting the number again?
In other words:
- Is it possible to port from an Orange contract to a Voda/O2/T-Mobile/Virgin PAYG?
- Then, is it possible to port from this PAYG to a new Orange contract?
I am worried Orange might recognise the number and refuse to do it...

Any advice welcome!!!

Cheers,
Luke

rash.m2k

Yes it's possible.

But chances are if you don't get a new phone Orange will give you a great deal.

Lucky_Luke_3

Thanks rash, but I'd rather get a new phone as well!
Do you think it is possible to port say from Orange contract to Virgin PAYG and then immeidiately after to ask Virgin for my PAC code to return to Orange???