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Does anyone know how long it usually takes to transfer a number to Three. I've only ever ported out of Three, never to them!

In the past it's always been near instant from when my old sim goes off and the number works on the new sim, but it's been a few hours and my old number just doesn't exist anymore!
 
Does anyone know how long it usually takes to transfer a number to Three. I've only ever ported out of Three, never to them!

In the past it's always been near instant from when my old sim goes off and the number works on the new sim, but it's been a few hours and my old number just doesn't exist anymore!
So it sounds like you're asking how long the process takes to complete once it's started?

It's difficult to say, because number porting involves your new network, your old network, and the network your number was originally on (if that's different from the network you're porting away from) all doing some work, and I don't think the two/three of them coordinate their activities - they just all do their part at some point on the agreed day.

I've heard some networks say to give it until midnight for everything to be complete, but in reality, assuming nothing has gone wrong, I'd expect everything to be complete before the end of the working day. Certainly, the situation you mention where your number seems to be dead for a while is quite normal.
 
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So it sounds like you're asking how long the process takes to complete once it's started?

It's difficult to say, because number porting involves your new network, your old network, and the network your number was originally on (if that's different from the network you're porting away from) all doing some work, and I don't think the two/three of them coordinate their activities - they just all do their part at some point on the agreed day.

I've heard some networks say to give it until midnight for everything to be complete, but in reality, assuming nothing has gone wrong, I'd expect everything to be complete before the end of the working day. Certainly, the situation you mention where your number seems to be dead for a while is quite normal.

Yeah, my number has just transferred over now, it took about 6 hours from my old sim going dead to the number being on my Three sim.
It was moving from Smarty to Three so I didn't expect it to take so long.

Last time I transferred my number was from ID to Smarty, and I don't think my number was dead for more than 10 minutes, same when transferring family members to VOXI.
 
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Generally completed next working day if submitted by 4:30pm the working day before, and can take anything up to midnight on the day of transfer to complete.
 
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