Transfer land phone number to cell

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I'm been thinking of transfering my land number to cell and was wondering is
that the way to go and can it be done. I would like to drop my cell number I
been using and have my home phone number transfer and just use my cell phone
for all calls.

If I did that well Sprint cancel my BellSouth and have it done within a
week.

Terry

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In article <YJqdncLNmoMJkl7d4p2dnA@comcast.com>,
terrance_bliss@hotmail.com says...
> I'm been thinking of transfering my land number to cell and was wondering is
> that the way to go and can it be done. I would like to drop my cell number I
> been using and have my home phone number transfer and just use my cell phone
> for all calls.
>
> If I did that well Sprint cancel my BellSouth and have it done within a
> week.
>
> Terry

I *can* be done within a week, but, from the few examples I've seen,
it generally doesn't. Nor, I think, are landline carriers obligated
to move any faster.

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In article <VN2dnZCEDtO-11vd4p2dnA@comcast.com>,
"TB" <terrance_bliss@hotmail.com> wrote:

> One other question is if my land number is transfer by sprint and bellsouth
> is cancel well my wall phone still work only for 911 emergency to call out.
> Reason i ask there maybe a time cell phone may not make good connection for
> 911.

Sorry, a cancelled landline phone is only a wall ornament.

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TB wrote:

> One other question is if my land number is transfer by sprint and bellsouth
> is cancel well my wall phone still work only for 911 emergency to call out.
> Reason i ask there maybe a time cell phone may not make good connection for
> 911.
>

'Fraid not. If the line's dead, it's dead.

You can take comfort however in the fact that all wireless carriers that
are compatible with your phone are required to give you access to 911.
So, if for some reason your sprint coverage is knocked out, if there's
say a verizon or alltell or ATT analog signal present, the 911 call will
go through one of those networks.

Also, I have to relate that my recent experiences with landline phones
leads me to think that the fabled reliability of wireline service in a
disaster has become a myth, even if it used to be the case a few years
back. The northeast blackout last year didn't affect us much in the
Central New Jersey area (just a flicker and a brownout for a minute or
two), but it was enough to make landline service in my area inoperable
for a good two hours (you got dialtone, sometimes, but all calls placed,
when you could place them, went fast-busy). Cell phone service was
about 50% reliable during the same period... not great, but hey, one
successful call out of every two was better than nothing, and given that
no local calls would go through (fast busy due to the landline switch
being out) it was difficult to tell whose fault that was.

My guess is that the local Verizon switch wasn't properly rigged to
float on batteries and suffered the consequences when the power flickered.

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