lyca Mobile, port in and port out

mda99das

I am with 3, and just taken out a new contract with 3 as mobiles.co.uk had an offer 3 could not match directly. 3 cant directly merge the 2 numbers, either I wait 30 days and then change it to PAYG then that can be merged, or I port out and port back in. Lyca mobile has sim cards you can buy, and I stupidly requested my PAC code from this rather than 3. I have dual sim phone, and forgot to double check which number the SMS went from. I then managed to get PAC from 3, and today the 3 number has been ported to Lyca. I then requested PAC code and it said that the request could not be completed. I really don't want to lose this number. Has anyone done triangular portation and did you have any issues? Many thanks

Neil_Jones

mda99das said:

I am with 3, and just taken out a new contract with 3 as mobiles.co.uk had an offer 3 could not match directly. 3 cant directly merge the 2 numbers, either I wait 30 days and then change it to PAYG then that can be merged, or I port out and port back in. Lyca mobile has sim cards you can buy, and I stupidly requested my PAC code from this rather than 3. I have dual sim phone, and forgot to double check which number the SMS went from. I then managed to get PAC from 3, and today the 3 number has been ported to Lyca. I then requested PAC code and it said that the request could not be completed. I really don't want to lose this number. Has anyone done triangular portation and did you have any issues? Many thanks

Sorry I'm confused.  What are you trying to do, and what "merge the 2 numbers" actually mean?  You don't "merge" anything.

Suggest you wait at least 24 hrs after a PAC has completed before you try to move the number again.

MikeJXE

No idea what you mean but last time I changed provider I ended my contract, requested a pac code and requested my number to be ported, all done in a few hours 

savergrant

I think Neil's point is that you can't request a pac on the day you have ported a number in. You need to allow 24 hours for the port to be completed. So in this instance number x was on 3 on Monday a pac was requested to move to lyca, and given to lyca. the port to lyca took place on Tuesday, you need to wait until Wednesday to request a pac from lyca and give the pac to 3, the port would take place on Thursday. So you would experience a brief disruption of service on Tuesday and again on Thursday.