I currently have a sim only deal at £5 a month on id mobile. I've found a deal on carphone warehouse for a Google pixel 9a phone with sim on id mobile with unlimited data, texts, and minutes at 14.99 a month and £119 upfront payment for phone that I want to take. How can I take this deal and stay with id mobile while keeping my same phone number? I tried requesting a pacs code a but this doesn't work as I'm not changing mobile network. I would like to stay with id mobile on this new deal and phone but also keep my number. The equivalent deal as an upgrade on the id mobile app is 24.99 monthly with free handset which would be £5 more per month compared to the carphone warehouse deal when including the payment of the phone.
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how to keep my phone number when moving from sim only deal on id mobile to monthly contract with new phone on id mobile from offer on carphone warehouse
Best answer by andewhite
To take advantage of the deal and keep your existing number, you’d need to port-out and then port-in the number you want to keep,
Port-out to a PAYG plan, with someone like ASDA Mobile, giffgaff, Lebara, etcetera.
Once your number works with your new PAYG provider, port-back to iD to the iD account you want to keep.
+26To take advantage of the deal and keep your existing number, you’d need to port-out and then port-in the number you want to keep,
Port-out to a PAYG plan, with someone like ASDA Mobile, giffgaff, Lebara, etcetera.
Once your number works with your new PAYG provider, port-back to iD to the iD account you want to keep.
+24Hey there
Thanks,
Tyler
Thanks for the info. That seems a lot of hassle and risk to move my number on the same provider. I've found a better deal with another provider that is a better offer than the upgrade deal on the id app. I would have stayed with id if my number could have been transferred over more easily with the carphone warehouse deal, but I'll likely cancel my current sim with id and get a pacs code for my new provider to keep my number. Shame, unfortunately id have just lost out on at least £480 from me in the next 2 years
+24Hi there
Thanks,
Tyler
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