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Originally Posted by boredandtattooed
id cancel with sprint and get all that settled first b4 going to VZW... i dont know how switching carriers works reallt, ive had sprint for 9yrs and never was with anyone else b4 that
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That is BAD advice if you want to take your phone number with you to your new carrier. Cancelling service at the old carrier will make the number transfer (porting) process much more difficult, and may even make it impossible.
Keep your old service. When you activate with the new carrier, do it with a representative on the phone. Tell them you want to port a number from your old carrier. They will ask for the number and some security information about the old carrier account. Within 24 hours, you will have your old number with your new carrier. You will have a temporary number with the new carrier in the interim. Once the number is ported from the old carrier to the new one, the old carrier service will be cancelled automatically.
Also, for the OP, I would point out that your network coverage should not be much better either way. A Sprint phone will roam to Verizon towers. Sprint does not charge roaming on their current plans. The only way this matters is if the Sprint signal is much
weaker than the Verizon one.