Matt L
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i was told the other day that if i rang up a phone company and asked for a certain number (forgotten the name) but it meant that if i gave the new phone company this number that it would transfer my phone number across to it.
is this true or not? orange wont let me do what i inteded to do so i may actually have to start a new contract with either orange or vodafone 
but i really want to keep the same number.
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Whittie
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You can do it, takes less than 2 weeks to do aparently.
Friend did it from Vodafone to o2, you need to phone your current provider and ask for a PAK code? (I think) And they send you all the details in the post.
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Matt L
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cheers the person on the phone just said that it wasnt possible .
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Whittie
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What company? Bit strange
My friend did it when the iPhone came out, so he HAD to go with o2, but wanted to keep the number.
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Matt L
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was orange, was the retnetions dept cause im going to end up cancelling one contract and changing to a new contract with them
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John
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It's illegal for them to withold it I think, sure Robbo or somebody will know for sure, phone back and tell them you want it before you get off the phone.
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Whittie
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u2u Jambo mate, he works for Orange.
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Matt L
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i will do closer to the time, got to go into a shop to do what i want though cause i want to change contract and phone at the same time.
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Robbo
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PAC code is what you want but you need to be at the end oif your contratc (within 70 days ish).
As John says, illegal to withhold
Once you give your new provider the PAC code it will be doen with 24 hours IIRC
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Matt L
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yeh it ends on the 27th Feb 
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Robbo
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then they shoudl be prepared to issue it shortly
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a_j_mair
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i recently just did this. bought out my orange contract and upgraded to a new orange contract
to transfer numbers you need to phone up and get a PAK code
orange wont let you transfer from orange to orange.
I had to transfer my number to a virgin pay as you go sim then get pak code off virgin and get it transfered to my new orange contract
took around 3 or 4 weeks of pissing around with 2 phones but need to do it foe work really
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pow
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I requested my PAK code twice from orange and they never sent it to me.
They can go fuck themsevles
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ed
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Just requested mine from Vodafone. The only issue I had with getting it is I had to sit through a few minutes of why the Storm is such a good handset
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Robbo
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Its PAC
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John
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Port Authorisation Code
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Matt L
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great so i need to get another phone (ie a 3phone or 02) to do it
btw when i ask for the pac code from the payg sim will they change the number on it? so it can still be used or will the cancel the sim?
[Edited on 14-01-2009 by Matt L]
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Robbo
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eh?
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Matt L
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going off what ajmair said i need to get another pay as you go sim card from say O2 so i can trfr my current orange number over to them so that i can then trfr it back to orange.
what i wanted to know is would the O2 sim then have a different number so it is still usable? or would it be cut off?
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bubble
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port authorisation code (pac) is used for porting number from one provider to another, they have to give it you within 5 days of request.
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pow
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Orange reallllllyy do invent their own rules dont they
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Matt L
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this just isnt really worth the effort orange are sending out my pac code should be here in 3-5 days.
i have an o2 card which... doesnt work in any of my 3 phones as they are all orange 
so now im on the search for an o2 phone to use for a week
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