question New number and call forwarding?

Adcadet

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My wife and I have had our current phone numbers for 13 years. We're moving to a different area code and want to get local phone numbers but we're not ready to give up our old numbers. I'm also planning on switching us from AT&T to Verizon. We'd like to overlap the new and old numbers if possible. I'd prefer not to have two cell phone bills for a few months and don't want to carry two physical phones. Is setting up call forwarding on the old account going to be the best way of doing this?
 

Howell

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Forwarding is the way you want to go.

If you don't want 2 cell phone bills you could port your old number to goggle voice or a VoIP provider or move the number to a pay as you go cell phone that allows forwarding. You could also move the number to another cheap phone on your new family plan and forward.
 

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I had Google voice port my parents' old land line number. It's an easy number to remember. That number and my office phone number (Vocalocity, now a Vonage subsidiary) both just forward to my cell. It works great, though I'm always a little worried that Google will decide to up and drop Google Voice. like it has other projects.
 

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Google Voice will give you one in the same area code. You can have it forward calls to another number.
 
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