topic Re: Port number, but keep current contract in SIM cards & Porting

Port number, but keep current contract

sohanp — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 09:33:34 GMT

Hi,

Wonder if anyone has experience of the following and if this is even possible to do :-

Currently I have 2 phone contracts 1 from O2 where I use the SIM for my iPad and 1 from EE which I use as my regular phone number on the iPhone.

The EE sim is on a very old £1 per week pack, but is my active phone number.

I now want to swap my sim around, but want to obviously keep my phone number the same so how can I arrange for a sim swap where my EE phone number gets transferred to the O2 sim and vice versa ? To be honest, the key is for me to keep my EE number, but on the O2 swim so doesn't even matter if the other number is a new number, but on the same EE contract as what I have now.

Thanks,

Re: Port number, but keep current contract

Christopher_G — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:48:16 GMT

Hi @sohanp

Welcome to the community.

I think I know what you're asking. You can only move your number to another network by using a PAC code. Once the transfer completes, the EE SIM that it was connected to then cancels. With it being an old pack, it wouldn't be available if you took out a new EE SIM.

Chris

Re: Port number, but keep current contract

XRaySpeX — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:51:27 GMT

You can't swap nos. around. Once you port a no. to a SIM you lose that SIM's old no. entirely. All you can do is port your EE no. to the O2 SIM & then get a new EE no.

You don't have a contract with EE; it's PAYG.

Re: Port number, but keep current contract

sohanp — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:26:42 GMT

Thanks - that is what I had imagined as my EE contract would be cancelled and will no longer have access to the old deal.

Re: Port number, but keep current contract

sohanp — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:50:08 GMT

Thanks - the issue is that I didn't want to lose the PAYG deal I have on the EE, but doesn't look like there is anyway around that if I want to swap my SIM.

Re: Port number, but keep current contract

XRaySpeX — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:41:07 GMT

Yes, it's impossible at both ends. You lose the plan the no. was ported from & you lose the old no. that it's ported to.