Porting My Number FROM magicJack

flybeech · Post by **flybeech** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:08 pm

I understand that magicJack does not currently support porting a telephone number TO magicJack service, but how about porting a magicJack number FROM magicJack?

According to what I have read on the FCC website;

"Under the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) “local number portability” (LNP) rules, so long as you remain in the same geographic area, you can switch telephone service providers, including interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers, and keep your existing phone number. If you are moving from one geographic area to another, however, you may not be able to take your number with you. Therefore, subscribers remaining in the same geographic area can now switch from a wireless, wireline, or VoIP provider to any other wireless, wireline, or VoIP provider and still keep their existing phone numbers."

Link http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/numbport.html

sabresfan · Post by **sabresfan** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:25 pm

Magicjack claims to be a "multimedia experience" not an actual telephone service. This is their current way to get around this. I don't know if they will ever support number porting so I would just tell you to either get a new number or forward your MJ to another number until your MJ expires. This is the downside to a setup such as this but it's also an upside in terms of cost.

flybeech · Post by **flybeech** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:51 pm

I can understand them being unable, or unwilling to port IN a number, but I don't see how this could exempt them from FCC local number portability (LNP) rules allowing the consumer to port a number AWAY from mJ. It seems that we still have the ability to port away from ANY provider, except certain small wireline companies that have an exemption from the porting requirements if they have received a waiver from their state public service commission.

Even free GrandCentral/Google Voice allows LNP. How could magicJack calling themselves a "multimedia experience" prevent them from being considered a VoIP provider of telephony, as defined under FCC guidelines that allow LNP? Has anyone in this forum attempted a port away from mJ?