I work for a verizon wireless port center. we dont charge for porting at all. we used to though. vzw decided it would be bad business to charge for porting.

to make a long story short and get to the point, it is not illegal for them to tell you if you can come back or not cause you can, and you can port your number as many times as you want. you just have to deal with contractial issues like early terminination fees and whatnot stated in your contract. you can freely go to wherever provider as you wish. you can keep that same number wherever you go as long as you still live in that same geographical/geophysical location where that area code and prefix is located and served.

that dude just probly came out of training as well did his “manager” so he didnt know or sprint pcs just didnt have the full information yet. porting takes anywhere from 6 hours to 10 days. depending on whether or not you wanted your number ported from cell to land line. that takes a lot of time. considering porting is a new concept with cell phones and landlines.

Here’s how you can port a number or the different ways you can i should say:

wireless to wireless *
wireline to wireless
wireless to woreline

* - this being NSP to OSP (new service provider to Old Service Provider) or -vs-

also, if there is a issue with vzw messing up your line or messing up the port for instance, no problem. just call us. we’ll fix it for you. we try to be as nice as possible to you cause we value your business and don’t want you to leave us plus, we are there to help you.