asterisk users - Dec 2005 - Porting a phone number to a voip provider

Hello, has anyone taken their cell phone number and ported it over to a 
voip provider?  If so, what voip provider and what was your experience? 

Matt

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:36:18 -0500
  Matthew <matthew@zeut.net> wrote:
> Hello, has anyone taken their cell phone number and 
>ported it over to a voip provider?  If so, what voip 
>provider and what was your experience? 
> Matt
> 
Matt,

   I have done this. I had a cell number with AT&T 
Wireless and first ported it to Broadvox Direct. There 
service was ok but ended up not fitting my needs as trying 
to run their Mediatrix box into my Asterisk box was just 
not working too well.

   I have since ported it away from Broadvox Direct to a 
Voicepulse Connect Account. I am running it straight into 
Asterisk now over an IAX connection and it has been 
working fine for me. Not a lot of calls come in on it, so 
I cannot really tell you what the real up time is on it. I 
just know that no one has ever told me that they tried on 
that number and could not get me.

Robert

> > Hello, has anyone taken their cell phone number and 
> >ported it over to a voip provider?  If so, what voip 
> >provider and what was your experience? 
> > Matt
> > 
> 
> Matt,
> 
>    I have done this. I had a cell number with AT&T 
> Wireless and first ported it to Broadvox Direct. There 
> service was ok but ended up not fitting my needs as trying 
> to run their Mediatrix box into my Asterisk box was just 
> not working too well.
> 
>    I have since ported it away from Broadvox Direct to a 
> Voicepulse Connect Account. I am running it straight into 
> Asterisk now over an IAX connection and it has been 
> working fine for me. Not a lot of calls come in on it, so 
> I cannot really tell you what the real up time is on it. I 
> just know that no one has ever told me that they tried on 
> that number and could not get me.
Just an FYI... not all cell numbers are portable.

Rich Adamson wrote:
> Just an FYI... not all cell numbers are portable.
Do you have any more information on this?  I read somewhere that 
sometimes you can port a number to a VoIP provider but not be able to 
port it back to the PSTN because not all PSTN providers will take 
numbers from VoIP providers.  Is this what you are talking about?

Matt