How to Port a Verizon Cell Number
- 1). Choose your new telephone service provider.
- 2). Call your new provider and inform the customer service representative that you want to port your Verizon cell number. You'll need to give the representative the phone number, including area code, your account number, ZIP code and Verizon passcode, if you have one.
- 3). Wait 24 hours for your new service to become active. FCC rules state that simple ports should be completed within this time frame. Simple ports generally mean a single line switch that doesn't involve complicated adjustments to equipment for the phone company. Most wireless to wireless or wireline, wireline or wireless to VoIP, or any other combination of switches should all fall under this simple category.
- 4). Call Verizon to terminate your service.