I've had my telephone number since I moved in March 2003.
Last December I ported the number over to my cell phone and cancelled my landline. The really strange thing was that my land line continued to function AFTER my cell phone started working with the phone number. I was told it would stop working after the number was ported. However, a few days later, when the land line was still operational, I finally called and just told them to deactivate it then.
Now comes today. I've been getting wrong number calls all day asking for Brian or Shelly. Turns out they weren't wrong number calls at all.
Brian just called me. Tells me that he recently moved and his new phone assigned by the phone company... it's my number. He recited it to me (had to have had it to call me anyway). That's why I've been getting his phone calls all day. So he's going to contact the phone company tomorrow and try to get it fixed. I told him about porting my number as that might help the phone company to figure out the messup.
I guess my landline didn't automatically disconnect because the phone company never showed the number as transferred but simply disconnected once I finally had them disconnect the line. I'm hoping this time they mark it as 'in use' on a cell phone. Otherwise I'll get to deal with this again the next time they assign it.
Last December I ported the number over to my cell phone and cancelled my landline. The really strange thing was that my land line continued to function AFTER my cell phone started working with the phone number. I was told it would stop working after the number was ported. However, a few days later, when the land line was still operational, I finally called and just told them to deactivate it then.
Now comes today. I've been getting wrong number calls all day asking for Brian or Shelly. Turns out they weren't wrong number calls at all.
Brian just called me. Tells me that he recently moved and his new phone assigned by the phone company... it's my number. He recited it to me (had to have had it to call me anyway). That's why I've been getting his phone calls all day. So he's going to contact the phone company tomorrow and try to get it fixed. I told him about porting my number as that might help the phone company to figure out the messup.
I guess my landline didn't automatically disconnect because the phone company never showed the number as transferred but simply disconnected once I finally had them disconnect the line. I'm hoping this time they mark it as 'in use' on a cell phone. Otherwise I'll get to deal with this again the next time they assign it.
