also, peeps forget that you lose your mobile2mobile unlimited and many other plan advantages if you were to port.

for me, the big advantage is a unique number that i give out to ONLY certain folks and in turn configure to auto-ring me at all lines - kind of like a super emergency line - and allows for amazing spam control should the number fall into the wrong hands (can you say, "new once" keeps calling? ;)

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I've had a Google Voice account since Grand Central let me in a couple years ago. I don't hand that number out to many people but do have an old 206 number from living in Seattle that I'd love to port. I waste a bunch of money every month keeping a low end T-Mobile account that forwards the calls to my new city since I'd had that number for 10 years.

I'd be happy to hand out invites if only GVoice gave us any to hand out!

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I have Google Voice but have only a couple of friends that know the number, so being able to port over my main number would be a nice trick. I think the larger issue, as Matt nicely raised, is the continued evaporation of these pipes we are all using to communicate. The more they open them, the happier we are - but the less power they have. Google's plan of world domination seems to continue according to their pink fuzzies group hug plan. Good for them.

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I missed the chance to sign up for this back in the day, and and am eagerly waiting for this service to come back online.

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