Carriers / MVNO Info

Mid-Rivers Communications sold its cellular network to Verizon in 2019. Its retail cellular service ended on August 1, 2019.

To get your Credo Mobile account number, text: ACCOUNT to: 27336. Credo Mobile does not use a passcode so you will need to use: 1234 if the service you are porting to requires a passcode. (Most do).

Getting a number off Bravado Wireless takes two things: the account number and the transfer PIN. It runs on the Verizon network. Here is how to get both and what the new carrier does with them.

2 year contract on the phones. Required to pay off the phone or suffer an early termination fee. Breakaway Wireless reqiures the account number and PIN to port out. Offer online bill pay and the account number and PIN would be listed on the account portal.

Bristol Bay Cellular Partnership’s customer service representative couldn’t answer any questions about porting a number away from BBCP. The only person that could aswer questions was out of the office for two weeks and the only way to contact them was via email.

Broadpoint was an offshore cellular network on Gulf of Mexico oil and gas platforms. Tampnet agreed to acquire it in July 2015.

Budget Mobile closed in 2017 when Budget PrePay gave up its Lifeline ETC designations state by state. Service ended between May 31 and June 5, 2017.

BYO Wireless is no longer in service. Its customers were transferred to Budget Mobile in September 2015, and that brand has since stopped selling service too. There is no BYO Wireless account number or transfer PIN to retrieve.

Chariton Valley Wireless exited mobile service and sold its spectrum to Verizon, AT&T and UScellular. Verizon acquired the wireless business.