

Just thought I’d share my experience of double porting as I had never done it before.
1. Ordered a sim from Three for PAYG
2. Requested a PAC code from Lebara on Friday
3. Gave PAC to three on same day around 3pm and they said it would port Monday
4. Monday came and nothing happened until about 2pm when the lebara sim stopped working and the three sim picked up my number - happy days
5. Waited 24 hours then requested PAC code from three on the Tuesday (had to call 333 to request from three handset as they require DOB if using text message and my sim wasn’t fully registered with details). All very easy. PAC code received a few minutes later
6. Registered the PAC on lebara website around 4pm to move the number to my new lebara sim I activated in the morning
7. Wednesday morning woke to an email from Lebara saying it was all complete. When I checked the lebara sim worked for outgoing calls but incoming went to the three sim. So had to wait a few more hours for it to all complete. Was fine by about 2pm
So all in all a pretty decent process. You just need to have a couple of days where you know you won’t desperately need your phone
I did order a Lyca sim to port to but decided to just keep that for another day. Seemed a waste of a 5p a month deal to just use it to port when three was completely free!
Hope this helps someone (edited)
1. Ordered a sim from Three for PAYG
2. Requested a PAC code from Lebara on Friday
3. Gave PAC to three on same day around 3pm and they said it would port Monday
4. Monday came and nothing happened until about 2pm when the lebara sim stopped working and the three sim picked up my number - happy days
5. Waited 24 hours then requested PAC code from three on the Tuesday (had to call 333 to request from three handset as they require DOB if using text message and my sim wasn’t fully registered with details). All very easy. PAC code received a few minutes later
6. Registered the PAC on lebara website around 4pm to move the number to my new lebara sim I activated in the morning
7. Wednesday morning woke to an email from Lebara saying it was all complete. When I checked the lebara sim worked for outgoing calls but incoming went to the three sim. So had to wait a few more hours for it to all complete. Was fine by about 2pm
So all in all a pretty decent process. You just need to have a couple of days where you know you won’t desperately need your phone
I did order a Lyca sim to port to but decided to just keep that for another day. Seemed a waste of a 5p a month deal to just use it to port when three was completely free!
Hope this helps someone (edited)