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Failed Port from Vodafone

AmzChhabra
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I am a small business customer who recently joined EE. Porting was supposed to happen yesterday and as per the usual process, my Voda SIM stopped working, followed by a text message from EE stating the number port had been completed.

Data works on the new EE Sim, however when calling or making calls from what should be my previous number, I get the message "You have dialled an incorrect number". Weirdly I can send and receive text messages, but only via the temporary number issued with the EE sim.

Numerous calls to customer services has ended up with me being transferred to an EE store, Apple or the line being cut off rather than any sort of help from the small business team in India. I was told I needed to go to an EE store to provide proof of ID so I can get a password set on the account, the EE store tried a new SIM, and other troubleshooting tactics, but still nothing. The UK team cannot help me as its a small business account and I am stuck with a business line that cannot receive or make calls, or receive SMS.

Is there some sort of escalation path to someone I can speak to in the UK to get this resolved, seems like a simple "Split Port" problem, perhaps needs a network refresh on EEs side. The India team are unfotunately not helpful at times, and where they fall short, they seem to just palm me off to someone else to make it not their problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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@AmzChhabra wrote:

They have conveniently asked me to wait 24 hours from when the SIM was registered in store, which according to their systems is 18:04, just after the time at which small business CS closes!


The 24hour timescale is often part of CS process, although should not be treated arbitrarily IMO.

I'd be tempted to call in as close to 6pm as you dare, and offer to wait on the call until the 6.04pm deadline has been & gone, querying what the next step is.

Without having account-access, it sounds like the store's attempt to help by replacing the SIM, has inadvertently made it worse - I'm not overly surprised. Once a SIM has been deactivated, it cannot normally be reactivated.

I suspect this may end up with another SIM replacement - not so much for the physical card being faulty, as to re-provision your account onto a clean one.

Christopher_G
EE Community Support Team

We don't have access to customer accounts here in the community, @AmzChhabra, so it's difficult to comment on what is happening with the port or SIM.

Do you live near the EE Store? It may be worth popping in again so they can double-check your account and make sure the correct SIM is registered.

Any discussions around your account and compensation need to go through the Business Customer Support team.

Chris

Thank you for the reply. I tried this, and unfortunately it wasn't the case, both sims still dead and the number is nowhere to be seen.

The representative I spoke to this time again went back and said its still with the MNP team and I would need to wait until Monday, so now I am frantically trying to find something temporary to use next week as I will be in Greece with no possibility of getting to a store on Monday to grab another SIM.

I wonder if it is worth grabbing a PAYG sim from the airport on the way out to potentially transfer to if they say that is the case, although I will have no means of testing it as I will not be in the UK?

Lesley_W
EE Community Support Team

Thanks for the update @AmzChhabra 

When will you be travelling to Greece? Activating SIM's when abroad is not recommended as they need to be connected to our network first in order to activate properly, so avoiding that would be best.

Lesley


@AmzChhabra wrote:

I wonder if it is worth grabbing a PAYG sim from the airport on the way out to potentially transfer to if they say that is the case, although I will have no means of testing it as I will not be in the UK?


PAYG SIMs need to be used in the UK first before they will work abroad. This is different from pay-monthly which - although far easier to activate in the UK - can be roaming-enabled abroad via a call to CS.

Flying tomorrow 9:05am so unless it's working before then, I will be without a phone for a week. I have picked up a data SIM to use while out there so at least WhatsApp works, but the fact I cannot receive calls to my number as it shows "you have dialled an incorrect number" is the biggest concern. 

I have been assured I will not lose the number, I am just at a loss as to how this takes so long and there is nobody to speak to to get it resolved quickly.

Lesley_W
EE Community Support Team

I'm pleased you have a back up plan for now @AmzChhabra 

I'm sure the team will be working on getting this sorted as quickly as possible and will have an update for you soon.

Lesley