"Oliver Mertens" <oliver_mertens@directbox.com> wrote in message
news:93eee165-f1cc-4138-9e53-eeddcacedc1f@a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com...
> Dear all,
> I have a pay as you go number with Virgin Mobile. Recently, I have
> signed up for a six months contract with Virgin Mobile through
> www.onestopphoneshop.co.uk
> Now, I want to port my old PAYG number to the monthly contract one.
> So I've phone Virgin Mobile to do that. But I've been told that it is
> *not* possible to port a number within the same network?!
> I couldn't believe that! That seems so silly to me. I've only signed
> up for the new monthly contract assuming that I'm able to port
> my old number from Virgin to Virgin!
>
> Is that information I've got from Virgin correct?
>
What you are trying to do is Migrate not port.
The networks don't have to offer migrating, sometimes they will
usually they won't, as what you are doing is sneaking a cheap upgrade

If they won't, then port the number to another network,
and a month later port it back in

Steve Terry