{"id":559,"date":"2011-01-19T22:11:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T03:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2011-01-19T22:12:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T03:12:02","slug":"google-voice-now-lets-you-port-your-own-phone-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/google-voice-now-lets-you-port-your-own-phone-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"g-voice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2011\/01\/g-voice-porting-rm-eng.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d be lying if we said we hadn&#8217;t been waiting on this feature since the service&#8217;s debut. As one reader just notified us  now lets you port your own phone number into its system &#8212; as in, that 10-digit hometown relic you&#8217;ve been holding onto as long as you&#8217;ve carried a handset can now live in the cloud and grant you freedom to start afresh \/ forward to your many on-hand devices. Check under phone setting to see if &#8220;change \/ port&#8221; is now an option. The cost of porting is $20 and, as you may guess, it&#8217;ll terminate your current service plan\u00a0<em>and<\/em> probably prompt the carrier in question to charge applicable early termination fees, but that&#8217;s pittance for saving your old line for the indefinite future. You know, just in case your seventh grade crush gets the nerve to call and say, &#8220;sorry.&#8221; Of course he \/ she will, just give it time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/post_label_source.gif\" alt=\"source\" \/>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/voice\/b\/0\/porting\">Google Voice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d be lying if we said we hadn&#8217;t been waiting on this feature since the service&#8217;s debut. As one reader just notified us now lets you port your own phone number into its system &#8212; as in, that 10-digit hometown relic you&#8217;ve been holding onto as long as you&#8217;ve carried a handset can now live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,87,364],"tags":[40,41,43,579,580,581,582],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellphone","category-computer","category-gadget","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-google","tag-google-voice","tag-googlevoice","tag-gv","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}