And yet, you can indeed take your number with you when you change cell
phone providers. You can convert a fixed base land line to a cell
phone number, and then take it anywhere you want to, and to any cell
phone provider.
I didn't really want to get into the nits of LNP, but your number is yours
to take with you, not yours to sell. You also can't port it outside your
local calling area, although cell carriers generally provide unlimited
forwarding within their own networks. This means that, e.g., you can port
your New York landline to mobile, move to California, keep the number on
the same mobile carrier, but then you can't port it back to a California
landline, only to a New York landline. And you can't sell the number at
all.
R's,
John
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