Tracfone is a good low-cost prepaid mobile provider, perfect for a spare phone, but also viable for a primary phone with light data use. Surprisingly enough, the transfer request completed within a few hours without a hitch! Calls to the number now go to my mobile phone instead of Skype. After inputting the details to the best of my knowledge I submitted the request and waited. These were recommendations I found in a forum post. For account number and PIN, I put my 10 digit Skype Number and “0000”, respectively. The name and billing address are self-explanatory, but I did double-check that they were correct in my Skype profile. landline or mobile)įor the provider type I chose “mobile”, and for name “other” since Skype was not one of the available choices. To transfer a number to Tracfone the following is required:
I chose Tracfone, a prepaid mobile provider, which will ensure I can transfer to Google Voice later (I ported a Tracfone number to a Google Voice account a few months so I am certain it works). Note that it may not be possible to transfer a Skype Number directly to a personal Google Voice account since the number must be tied to either a mobile phone or another Google account (see Port or transfer your personal number). I’ve previously written about such options. There are many low-cost options, such as prepaid, VoIP (e.g. Despite the lack of concrete details I decided to try porting out my Skype Number to another service provider. I couldn’t find these in my Skype profile or referenced in Skype documentation. When porting out a number the new provider will ask for several pieces of information, in particular the account number and PIN. I also found several forum threads and Reddit posts, but they too lacked detail.
One of the top results on Google, How do I port my Skype Number to another company?, is an official FAQ but doesn’t go into hardly any detail.
Surprisingly little information is available on the web about porting out a Skype Number. However, I didn’t want to lose the number, so I looked into porting it out. I think Skype is great but I haven’t been using it much recently, so I decided I ought to stop paying $14/quarter to maintain a Skype Number. I recently ported out my Skype Number successfully so here’s a quick summary of my experience. Number portability is not a new thing, but what about porting out a Skype Number? This is an optional (paid) feature available to personal Skype accounts that makes it possible to receive telephone calls via the Skype app.
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