The benefits of porting your geographic telephone numbers to the uCloud platform.
- Cost savings on all calls
- A strong national presence
- Instant return on investment (ROI)
- The potential to grow and scale
- Increased productivity for every employee
- A reliable phone service
- Easy-to-manage communication system
- Security and fraud prevention
- Exceptional call quality
Geographic telephone phone number
A geographic telephone number is a fixed-line telephone number beginning with a geographically area code (e.g. 011 for Johannesburg, 012 for Pretoria, 021 for Cape Town etc.) Geographic telephone numbers generally associate your business to the area or location of operation and give your customers a sense that your business is established and trustworthy.
Geographic telephone number porting
Porting of your geographic telephone number allows you to keep your existing businesses telephone numbers when changing from your current service provider to our uCloud platform. When porting your geographic telephone numbers to our Unity Fire uCloud platform we will manage the entire process on your behalf.
How Long Does Landline Number Porting Take?
Telephone number porting should take as little as 48 hours and we can provide you with an interim telephone line number solution to ensure you still receive all your calls while porting to the new VoIP service is in process.
What we require to porting your telephone number.
- A Geograpic Number Porting application form,
- A porting letter on your company’s letterhead,
- A copy of the (owner) signatory’s ID as well as,
- The recent phone bill from your current service provider.
Once we have received the above documentation, the application will be submitted to the number porting authorities of South Africa. The porting authority will then propose a suitable date for the porting to take place, and we will arrange the necessary expertise to ensure that this happens without interruption to your telephone call services.
Requirements to port a telephone number.
- Your telephone account with your current provider must be up to date, and not in arrears.
- If you port an ADSL telephone number, the number will be ported, but the ADSL service will be cancelled.
- Once any telephone number/s have been ported, you must cancel your services with your current provider to ensure that you are not invoiced in future for these services from the current provider.