In the USA, there are approximately 235 phone carriers, Mobile Virtual Network Operators, and regional landline providers. When a customer tries to port their phone number away from these companies, it can often be a huge headache. It can be very difficult for a customer to get their account number, password or PIN Code. However, this account info is necessary in order to transfer to another service provider from an existing carrier. Phone companies, unfortunately, make it difficult to leave. This is because if they drop you as a customer, they end up losing the ongoing monthly revenue.
Search Porting Instructions for Any American Phone Company
Open the port-out tool to get the account number, transfer PIN and port-out instructions for any US carrier. It is free, and nothing you enter is stored.
Phone companies have incentive to make porting very difficult and train their reps accordingly.
Best Cellular has created a database of How to Get your Account Number, Password & Contact Info from Every Phone Company in the United States. The database currently contains the contact and account information for 235 phone companies in the USA. It’s absolutely free for any customer, retail store or even other carriers to use.
Why the Account Number, Password & Contact Info Database was created
The database started out as a bunch of 3-ring binders and Microsoft Word documents. Our employees would use these to get the necessary information when a new customer wanted to transfer their number into Best Cellular from another service. Over a period of (5) years, with multiple employees working on the Contact Info binders, it simply got to be too much. We decided to streamline the process of finding the customer account info from each company. Of course, this project quickly took on a life of its own.
We created a team of seven research analysts to discover and obtain the account information from every service provider. This project included the more obscure or harder to reach phone companies as well. On top of their research, this team started the major task of converting numerous notebooks, binders, and documents into a single online database that anyone with internet access can use. Now that database has grown into an easy to use tool, free for everyone.
FCC Guidelines
The Federal Communications Commission has issued regulations concerning Number Porting. The following statement describes keeping your phone number when you change providers.
“If you’re switching service providers and remaining in the same geographic area, you can keep your existing phone number. This process – often referred to as phone number porting – can be done between wireline, IP, and wireless providers.” – https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/porting-keeping-your-phone-number-when-you-change-providers
Quotes about building the Account Info tool
- President/CEO – M. Curtis McCoy, “Starting out years ago as an employee in a small prepaid phone store, I’ve personally struggled hundreds of times trying to help a customer who just wants to keep their phone number but can’t get the info from their carrier. We had to create a solution.”
- Lead Agent – Austin Abbott, “What was once just a pile of notebooks and binders containing information that was only available to our employees, has now become the most comprehensive resource for every cell phone and landline customer in America. I’m amazed that Mr. McCoy has chosen to make this a public and free resource (even for his competitors).”
- CMO – Connie V. Wyatt, “In this ever-changing industry, you MUST learn to work smarter, not just harder. The goal of this massive project was to simplify the (sometimes overwhelming) process of porting anyone’s phone service to a different company that better suits their needs.”
- Shift Manager – Jenny Byrge, “The most difficult part of porting a customer’s phone number is not the work that an employee does, but what the customer has to do to get their account information from some of these carriers. After dealing with so many of these companies trying to get the information that customers need, we were amazed by how difficult the process was. I’m proud to have been a part of this epic achievement.”
- Research Analyst – Sam Liedtke, “We quickly realized, not only was this project larger in scope than initially anticipated, but the potential benefits were exponential. This was a necessary project that the industry has been needing since the wireless industry launched in April 1973. A resource of this magnitude has been a long time coming and we’re glad to be able to share it with the world.”
Link to Account Number, Password & Contact Info Database: MVNO / Carrier Database
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Check coverage before you port
We have not confirmed which national network Best Cellular Launches Tool to Get your Account Info from Any Phone Company uses, and we do not guess. Ask them before you port, then check that network’s map: Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T.
Your right to keep the number is federal, not a carrier policy. The rule is the FCC’s: Portability: Keeping Your Phone Number When Changing Service Providers.
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Other carriers we track
Account numbers, transfer PINs and port-out steps for other carriers in the database.
- Big River Telephone Company
- Blaze Wireless
- Blue Wireless
- Bluegreen Mobile
- Bristol Bay Cellular Partnership
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