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Zedonra posted...

If you have an old phone I would recommend first buying a phone online at whatever is a good price and looking at reviews on phones a bit and looking at your chosen price range and what features are most important to you. Then go into whatever cellular store you plan on using (make sure the phone you buy either supports that particular provider or is 'unlocked'), and have them transfer your number to the new phone and give you either a new sim or use your old sim (well if your phone is ancient can't do this), not sure if they can transfer contacts, I just manually put all the ones I care about back in.

Doing the number transfer process is either difficult or impossible I believe to do purely online.

Depends on carrier, I have T-mobile went onto their own website picked the phone I wanted, they shipped it to my place and I just swapped sim card and that was it.

Again the sim card dictates the phone number and that is what gives a cell phone cell service.