Is your Dingtone phone number allowed to be transferred to your local carrier?

The short answer is NO.

Per the Terms of Service that you agreed to when you signed up your Dingtone account, phone numbers assigned to you are owned by Dingtone or its suppliers.

You do not have any rights to transfer the phone numbers or to use the phone numbers separate and apart from the Dingtone service. Dingtone only grants you a permission to access a Dingtone phone number even you pay a certain amount of Dingtone credits when you get the number.

In order to port out a Dingtone phone number, first of all, you must pay an additional fee to purchase the ownership of the Dingtone phone number from Dingtone. The cost of purchasing the ownership of a phone number varies. You must provide your ID to Dingtone after you complete the payment. Once Dingtone verifies your ID, the ownership of the Dingtone phone number is transferred to you. Then, you will receive instructions to port out that phone number.

Ife Miller from Huston just picked 2 good phone numbers from Dingtone and port out to Verizon. Check out her story:

Q: Why do you choose to get a US phone number on Dingtone? Instead of picking one from the carrier?

The carrier will state they don’t have numbers in one prefix or another. From experience by use of Dingtone for quite some time now, I’ve learned Dingtone can generate prefixes of choice that many wireless carriers cannot.

So I found an alternative route to gaining the prefix of my choice and just porting that number into my wireless service provider.

Q: Which prefix did you get on Dingtone?

832 and a 281 which are becoming rare in Houston which is why they created a new prefix about a year or so ago.

#1 Am I the owner of my Dingtone phone numbers?

No. Please check out the Terms of Services.

#2 Can I resell or lease Dingtone phone numbers?

No. Please check out the Terms of Services.

#3 Can I transfer my Dingtone phone numbers to another Dingtone user?

No. Please check out the Terms of Services.

#4 How much does purchase the ownership of a Dingtone phone number cost?

It depends on the number you want to port out.

#5 How much does porting-out a number cost?

In additional to the fee you pay to purchase the ownership of a Dingtone phone number from Dingtone, Dingtone may charge an additional fee to assist you porting out a number.

#6 Can I seek a refund after I complete the payment to purchase the ownership of a Dingtone phone number?

No, we do not provide any refund.