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Porting from 3 to 3

jimmysayshey
jimmysayshey Posts: 60 Forumite
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How do I go about doing this?

I'm on a monthly service with 3 and the contract has run out, I've been given the PAC code.

3 direct having offered me any good deals, however through the 3rd party retailer mobileshop.com I've found a deal I like with 3 on the S4. Can I port over the number directly to this new number once I received it, or is it more complicated than that?
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  • grumbler
    grumbler Posts: 58,629 Forumite
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    It's more complicated. PAC and porting are for moving to another network only.
    So, you have to do this in two steps
  • jimmysayshey
    jimmysayshey Posts: 60 Forumite
    grumbler wrote: »
    It's more complicated. PAC and porting are for moving to another network only.
    So, you have to do this in two steps

    What are these steps?
  • d123
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    jimmysayshey wrote: »
    What are these steps?

    3 to another network, get another PAC and then other network back to 3.
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  • jimmysayshey
    jimmysayshey Posts: 60 Forumite
    d123 wrote: »
    3 to another network, get another PAC and then other network back to 3.

    So say for example I pick up an orange PAYG sim... I phone up orange and get this ported over, and it'll be done straight away?
    And then tomorrow my new contract arrives, I phone Orange, get the pac code, give it to 3 and I get transferred over to them straight away, being able to receive calls and texts?
  • grumbler
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    Again, it can be not that simple. E.g. you can be asked to top your new PAYG sim up first.

    Moving my number from T-Mobile to T-Mobile!
  • d123
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    It will normaly take a week or 2 to do safely (and I wouldn't advocate using Orange with their "computer says no" type CS).

    I would use someone like GiffGaff or o2 as the host in the middle. Get the sim, top up and then port to them, leave it 7 days to make sure all has worked as it should and then apply to the host for a new PAC to port back out.
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  • jimmysayshey
    jimmysayshey Posts: 60 Forumite
    Which network is the easiest to port my number to and to get a PAC code from? I want to get this done ASAP and as smoothly as possible
  • grumbler
    grumbler Posts: 58,629 Forumite
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    Have you read the thread that I posted the link to?

    IIRC it was discussed to death there.
  • jimmysayshey
    jimmysayshey Posts: 60 Forumite
    grumbler wrote: »
    Have you read the thread that I posted the link to?

    IIRC it was discussed to death there.

    That was for T- Mobile, discussed last 2 years ago. I thought things may be a lot different now
  • grumbler
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    jimmysayshey wrote: »
    That was for T- Mobile,
    How is it different for Three?
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