On the top-right button (from the pool): Add a New Line. Since I was adding the GV numbers to a shared data pool the order of operations is: A. Initiate the porting process from U.S.In the next step when asked for your account number and PIN use your 10-digit phone number as the account number and the PIN you just set. Pay Google Voice a $3 port out fee to unlock your number.Use Google Takeout to backup/export your Google Voice data (you shouldn’t lose your history because of the port, but just in case). Here is the process to port out of Google Voice: Support did a good job sending updates via email on the status and progress. Whether chat or phone, support is empowered to help. But US Mobile customer support is excellent. I don’t look forward to calling customer service for any telco, usually, they are unhelpful due to a lack of expertise or authority. Actually, I must stop to talk about US Mobile customer service. The porting process was finicky, but customer service was proficient. Porting From Google Voice to US Mobile Process International texting is not available which is ridiculous (common, but ridiculous). International inbound calls are free, but no option for outbound calls (except you can call Canada which is all I really need). But no voice/text roaming outside the U.S. International data roaming does work in most major countries. It is better than most MVNOs, but not as good as Google Fi or Ting Mobile. I think the main downside is the lack of international calling and roaming capability.That said you can add more data at any time. Some MVNOs will just throttle you to 256kbps when you run out… not great but better than cutting you off. One downside is when you run out of data it just stops.WiFi calling, Visual Voicemail, and Conference calling all work as expected.Hotspot is included in the pooled plans.This is rare for an MVNO and provides more coverage in rural areas. Access to Verizon’s rural roaming agreements (their extended network).I did a series of speed tests during a saturated time and averaged 19/4 compared to 5/4 on a Verizon plan. US Mobile is a Verizon MVNO with prioritized data (you will not be throttled).Here are the features and downsides of US Mobile: This is a little more than the $8/month we pay for TracFone, but TracFone doesn’t support eSIM. US Mobile has a variety of plans, I’m using the pool data plans which run $9 per line for unlimited voice/text + $2 per GB of data. I’ve used Ting Mobile and TracFone in the past, but since those don’t support eSIM, I’m porting the numbers to US Mobile. MVNOs are essentially resellers of Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile, but at a lower cost and without the contract. So I use what’s known as an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator). I’d rather pay cash for a phone, and pay a fair rate for mobile service. The reason is I don’t like the price structure of overpaying for cell service under a contract and getting a subsidized phone in return. So, I don’t pay for cell service directly from Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. If you get AT&T and Verizon you’d have pretty good coverage and redundancy. But there’s also a virtual SIM, an eSIM, allowing the iPhone to have two cell providers active at the same time. The first slot holds a physical SIM card. I found out the iPhone 13 can service dual SIMs.
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