Literally.
South County Boy began the process of "porting" (taking your old phone number to a new carrier) on July 8th. We waited until the 8th because our billing cycle would start over on July 13th and the process can sometimes take up to 48 hours to go through... and we wanted our smart phones for the last farmers market ---just in case--- while we tested out our portable internet on the go that we picked up earlier this month at Walmart to use with our square reader.
So we figured that would give us plenty of time since it normally only takes a few hours for the phones to port over. Sure enough, 4 hours later I was all set up with my Trac Phone.
But 24 hours later, South county Boy was not... and 48 hours later it still wasn't done and it was July 10th...
We called that evening after the full 48 hours and after hitting a slew of * and # keys to finally got someone real on the phone. We discovered our problem. South County Boy had typed in the wrong phone number to port...
Thankfully the gal was able to restart and open his ticket and told us it would take probably 4 to 24 hours for the transfer to go through...
After 24 hours passed we had to call again because we were worried.... I pressed a bunch more * and # keys... got hung up a few times... and then eventually someone told us we had to wait the full 48 hours before they could do anything since their computer showed it was still porting and being worked on.
That's when we started worrying... because the full 48 hours would end at like 5pm on July 12th... so if it didn't work, hello $100 phone bill for just a single day or two of service.
But we woke up and found out at 8 or 9 am on the 12th that number had ported over. I called Sprint to verify our cancellation and the lady wanted to know why we were not longer continuing with their service. When i told her we were going to trac phones for maybe $20 a month for both our lines with texting and we were just going to use our smart phones on a WiFi network for free she was a little speechless...
Heck, before my husband, I wouldn't have known that was possible and would have assumed that you had to have a contract and pay $50-$60 a month for a cell phone...
The only down side was having to enter in all our contacts since there is no little chip or disk we can insert. Other than that, its great. We have perfect reception and signal, the battery life is really good since its not a smart phone, and my old smart phone still updates my applications on WiFi and works like it always did-- its just not a phone anymore.
The bill I hate to pay the most is officially gone. I promised SCB that we would bump our home internet speed back up a level where it was before we cut it when money was tight now that we will have more things running off the home network. So next month I'll call Cox up and increase our speed a little bit. Well probably budget $30 a month for our phones. We have also been using our wall AC a bit more so when we get our next bill we will budget accordingly and take the extra after that and add it to our gasoline budget.
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