Can I take an old pager number to a new cell phone?

Phones and Phone Plans
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It is sad, but after more than 20 years of using a pager, my carrier has taken down many transmitters and it no longer works reliably. It has become useless.

Yet many of my patients have the beeper number, which starts with 404-646-XXXX. Looks like I have no other choice than to get a cell phone, however much I hate them.

My question is, once I close my account with SPOK, my beeper provider, can I transfer the number to a cell phone? I am not sure what kind of cheap phone and service I will buy, but I need it to read QR codes overseas while I am on trips, as well as possibly function as a GPS.

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I have no idea, but I would not close the account before transferring the number. Go to whatever cell phone provider you want and ask them to transfer the number. Once they do, the old account should close automatically. But if you close the beeper account first, your number will likely be gone forever.

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What Ratbert said…