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on 31-05-2023 06:49 PM
Has anyone else had a similar problem porting their phone number with Three? I recently joined Three on a pay-monthly plan. At the same time, I applied to transfer my old number. The transfer should have been completed by the end of the next working day. That was eight days ago. Since then, the transfer still hasn't gone through. Three Customer Services don't seem particularly interested and have told me every day for the last five days that the transfer would definitely be completed by the end of the day. It hasn't!
They told me that the issue had been escalated but that doesn't seem to have provoked any action from them. This is my work number and I desperately need it back! I wish I'd stayed with my old network. Terrible customer service!
on 24-02-2025 08:59 PM
Where did you get up to.
on 22-09-2024 08:13 PM
Yes, currently experiencing this now.
my husbands number after porting to Three appears lost, and Three aren’t taking responsibility. Each Customer Service rep I’ve spoken to seems to suggest something different and feel completely fob’d off - currently wouldn’t recommend Three to anyone and really not sure what to do.
I realise this was last year, but did you get a fix for this?
on 02-08-2023 08:57 PM
They've lost 1 of our numbers too. 15th May. Handset contract bought, business phone, worked fine. Then i bought 2 sim only contracts and brought numbers over from Vodafone. Then realised the handset sim wasnt working. They had ported a number onto a sim contract aswell as a handset contract and to this date they dont know how to rectify. Ive had 24 online chats some up to 4 hours long, 8 phone calls some up to 3 hours long, most recent one last friday was 4.5 hours long, even went into a 3 shop who said they could see 1 of my numbers is on 2 contracts, old system and new system. Latest today is i have to lose 1 of my numbers. Either my husbands business number hes had 10 years or my number that ive had 22 years since i had my 1st mobile phone. It has been stressful trying to explain to someone what has happened as i dont even understand it myself. Unable to get a straight answer, unable to speak with anyone in the UK, passed from old system dept to new system dept, taken them 4-6 weeks to respond to complaints logged online and a letter sent to their head office. Then last week i had adverse credit added to my credit file as Three have logged missed payments on my credit file for a phone i cant use as the sim isnt connected and i havent received a bill and they cant even find the account online!! All in all a lot of stress, loss of customers, loss of a valuable number and still no resolve, so im still going around in circles with no clue how it will end.
on 03-06-2023 08:23 PM
This happened to me recently. I called them 3+ times a day and escalated through management and I finally got it sorted but it took 8 days! Really bad service for a new customer but keep persisting- it did eventually get sorted
on 01-06-2023 09:51 AM
Hi @AndyTR,
This sounds really distressing, I can't imagine how disruptive losing access to your number must be. I'd like to make sure that we're doing everything we can to help. I'll send you a private message to link you to an escalated support team.
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JonathanB
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on 16-05-2025 12:17 PM
Hi Jonathan
any chance you can look into my issue as well been over a week now and Three support is useless.
on 16-05-2025 02:28 PM
Hi @Brits,
Thanks for getting in touch, I found your topic, and have raised feedback on your behalf, and asked for this to be escalated.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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on 20-05-2025 11:00 AM
Great thanks Jonathan hopefully get a solution as it’s been 15 days now
on 22-05-2025 02:58 PM
Hi @Brits,
Sorry again for the delays. I'm limited in how much I can share on the public forums, but as I mentioned I've shared your situation with some contacts, and I'm hopeful we can get this all sorted out soon. Thanks so much for your patience.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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