porting number but not ending contract

[Anonymous]

Hello

Can I port my O2 number to another network and get a new number for this contract and therefore keep this contract until the end date?

thanks

[Anonymous]

You would have thought so!

Everytime I have asked this of any network they have not been able to do it.

[jonsie · Accepted solution]

As far as I'm aware this can't be done. Porting your number to another network will effectively close your account and you would have to pay off the remaining minimum period.

[Anonymous]

As Jonsie says it cant be done don't really see why they cant charge you for the new number though and let you port your current one but that's just me

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

As Jonsie says it cant be done don't really see why they cant charge you for the new number though and let you port your current one but that's just me

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Exactly right!

It's one of those things, if we are honest they CAN do it.  They just either:

1) Don't have the systems or process' in place

2) Don't want to do it

[Anonymous]

Hi

i tried to do this last month.

I wanted to port a number from a personal contract (my 22yr old sons phone) to a new account in his name and port a business no on o2, to the old personal contract.

A flat refusal.

John