If the service has been cancelled, the number is gone, you can't port it.
Numbers are not reassigned for some period, and most phone companies will as
a courtesy let the same customer get their number back for some short
period. Note: the same customer. You would have to re-establish service
with the original phone company and then port the number out.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 6:30 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Obtaining a Failed Business Phone Number
Similar question. Say you have an AT&T landline number for twenty
some years. Due to using a cellphone and wanting to cut costs you
cancel. A year later you think, hey I should have ported that number
to magicjack and kept it. Always nice to have an alternate number so
telemarketers do not call your cell plus so many places still identify
you by it. Anyway to do that a year or so later?
They go in the pool after 30 or 90 days...something like that.
If you can do a port, do it. You'd need the information from the previous
owner's bill (account number, any PIN/password, etc).
