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Can i buy a phone in alberta and activate it with an ontario number?
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5:26 pm
November 26, 2008


Kevinck

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I'm living in alberta right now and moving to Ontario soon. I am in need of a new cellphone and the 2760 speakout deal looks like exactly what i want. i'm just a little unsure about the activation.

Can i buy the phone in an Alberta 7-11 and immediately activate it as a Toronto phone? I want to have the phone activated and with a new ontario number asap. Don't want to wait until after i have moved.

Two other semi-related questions.

1. Say i buy a phone now in calgary and activate it as a calgary number. Say i also have an existing and active pay as you go ontario telus cellphone number. The speakout website says transferring a number is free. Doesn't mention about changing locations. Can i get that old ontario number applied to my alberta speakout phone to transform it into an ontario phone with that same old number? And is it still free?

2. How do you get the promotion. buy $100 airtime and get $74 credit. Does the 7-11 checkout guy do it?

6:31 pm
November 26, 2008


iamdrumming

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Once you buy a SpeakOut phone, there is already a phone number attached to the sim card, and it is activated with the first call. So if you were to buy a phone (and sim) in Alberta, it would have an Alberta number already. Your best bet would be to call SpeakOut customer service and tell them you will be moving to Ontario soon. I am sure they would be able to switch your Alberta number to an Ontario one.

Quite similarly, I bought a sim card off a seller through this site. It had a Calgary area code (403) on it. It took just one call to customer service, and had the area code switched to a local one here in Ontario (289).

Yes, you will be able to port your Telus number to your new Speakout phone with no problems, and it's free. I have done several ports already.

You get the promotion by getting a top-up card from the display, take it to the clerk, and say you would like to take advantage of the free phone or $74 credit offer. They will then ring up the $100 voucher, and give you the free phone, or take $74 off your choice of phone.

8:56 pm
November 26, 2008


manny

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Sorry iamdrumming, but one small correction to your statement.
The last 2 phones I bought ( in Cambridge, ON )had some " weird " area codes.
I think it was 219.
Called SO Customer Service, told them what area code and phone # I wanted, and had my request filled within minutes. ( No charge ).

9:20 pm
November 26, 2008


iamdrumming

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With the phones that you bought in Cambridge, might they have had area code 289 (instead of 219)? 289 is just the overlay code of the 905 area code. I would not think it was 219. 219 is the area code of northwest Indiana in the USA, but who knows.

Anyways, I know that 7-Eleven pulls stock from one store that is over stocked with phones, to stores that are running out of phones. When I got my SpeakOut phone, it was 416 area code originally, but someone at 7-Eleven wrote another number (with area code 289) on a piece of paper and taped it on top of the 416 area code number.

When I made the first call, it was a 289 area code, so my phone was shipped from Toronto to the 7-Eleven closest to me.

I know you can call SO customer service and change your area code. Read my post about when I changed my sim card from a Calgary area code to an Ontario one. However, I think you got lucky when you said you could choose your own phone number as well. I have made several requests to SO customer service in the past about choosing my own number, and every time I was denied.
They told me that no one can choose, they just get a pool of numbers, and they pick the one that comes on the screen when you call in.
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