Can I transfer my prepaid cell number to an iPhone?
Before you do that, you should go through the posts over at TUAW regarding one author’s attempts to just use their prepaid SIM in an iPhone.
Did ‘handful of rain’ ever come to a conclusion on this? I’ve been searching google for the same question and have not yet found an answer. TSGlenn seemed to have the closest answer to what I found to date. This is NOT a number portability issue as the number is already with ATT. I’ve also checking the number portability eligibility and it says it is not eligible, but since it is already an ATT number, it doesn’t seem like much. I have a Go phone (prepaid) and the issue is with moving it to postpaid. The first ATT store said that they could only do it for something like $100 or 200 extra per phone. The second said they could but started working it and said no, they couldn’t. Both said the “easiest” way was to get a new number. One said that it will not even work if coming from another companies pre-paid either. Does anyone know if this is true? I am not trying to use the iPhone as a prepaid phone, I just want to keep my number… have not found an ATT customer rep to let me know how ye
It is my understanding that all of the major carriers offer their pre-paid phones as a completely different service as their contract phones. I.e., they are handled by different divisions of the company, and I’ve even been told by company reps that they don’t even necessarily use the same networks/towers. It doesn’t make sense, I know. But I don’t think you’ll be able to do the transfer.
