Does this mean you can port your number.....

Old_Gold

when you change contracts on the same network?
According to the CPW website the following rules exist.

"
Moving your phone number when you change your supplier of airtime is sometimes referred to as Mobile Number Portability or Migrations but we will refer to it here as a transfer.
The transfer process allows you to keep your mobile phone number(s) whether you want to:

• Change Network and Service Provider at the same time.
• Remain on the same Network and change Service Provider.
• Change Network and remain with the same Service Provider."

They do fail to define the difference between network and service provider though. At one shop they have told me it means the same.

Mobile_Mole

As you have stated, MNP (Mobile Number Portability) allows you to transfer your number to another service provider regardless of whether you are changing network operator.

Changing network operator and service provider is known as porting. Changing service provider but remaining with the same network operator is generally known as migration.

The commission a dealer earns on a migration is considerably less than for a new network connection. As a result most, if not all, dealers do not facilitate migrations.

Service provider and network operator are not the same. A network operator provides you with network access and a service provider is responsible for customer service and billing.

Only O2 and Vodafone use third party consumer service providers but most have been bought up by the networks over the last few years. As far as I am aware O2 CPW is the only major consumer SP remaining. Vodafone customers were rescued from CPW's SP last year.


The above is edited content from my guide to MNP.

musty

Hi Mobile Joe

I am on Orange PAYG and am planning to move to Orange contract. I have seen few good cash back deals with mobiles.co.uk. They will isssue me with a temp number.

How do I migrate my existing number?

Any views on mobiles.co.uk

Thanks

Buzby

With difficulty - as previously pointed out, the price you pay for the handset will be based on a 'new' connection, and there have been issues in the past where PAYG numbers cannot be used on contract mobiles, due to the way the HLRs (Home Location Registers) that track the type of mobile, where it is, and the services it can access.

You could NOT request a PAC as you want to stay with the same network, to the best thing to do is go to an Orange Shop and ask them to help, but only if you plan to purchase the handset from them.

As for 'good cashback deals' I'm surprised there is anyone out there who still believes these promotions are worth the hassle, especially the hoops you have to jump, even assuming the dealer making the offer doesn't go bust!