My brother ported to T-Mobile from VM. It took him 2 or 3 days and a lot of time on the phone with VM. It was a hassle, to say the least.

 

It just takes awhile for them to release the number and he was going out of town so he was trying to speed the process up before he left. That way he wouldn't have to take both phones with him.

 

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Yeah, VM is a real pain when it comes to stuff like that.

 

Anyone have experience with porting a T-Mobile number to Straight Talk? Should I still expect ~3 days?

 

From everything I've heard from Walmarts connection center they are usually good about doing it pretty fast.

 

Sheesh 3 days that's crazy. I ported my number from T-Mo to Virgin in like an hour when I activated last year.

 

Took me a couple of hours.

 

I put in a request for activation/number transfer from T-Mobile to Straight Talk online. Waited 6 hours and nothing so I called Straight Talk and got it activated within 20 minutes of making the call. I think the moral of the stories here is that calling seems to speed up the process considerably.

 

3 days total from VM to TM. Checked in on the status with TM after 48 hours and they just told me to wait another day. Next day the port completed.