Moving abroad?Take your number with you.
Receive your texts and answer your calls in the NumberNest app, with no expensive phone plan back home. Starting with UK, Canadian and Australian numbers.
NumberNest
Receive your texts and answer your calls in the NumberNest app, with no expensive phone plan back home. Starting with UK, Canadian and Australian numbers.
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Bring your cell phone number to NumberNest. Your old SIM keeps working until the transfer is done.
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Messages and pictures arrive in the app, on your phone and on the web.
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Calls ring over the internet, on your phone and on the web, wherever you are.
Calls ring on your phones and the web at once. Answer on any of them.
Keep your number without paying for a phone plan back home. Messages still arrive and calls go to voicemail.
Missed calls go to voicemail with transcripts.
When you call, people see your usual number.
Bring more than one number and switch between them in the app. Each keeps its own messages and calls.
Take your number to another carrier whenever you like. There's no exit fee.
Yes. It moves to NumberNest the same way it would move to a new carrier. This is called porting. You can take it to another carrier whenever you like.
A plan needs its SIM in a phone, and using it abroad can cost a lot. Prepaid numbers can be switched off if they go unused for too long. With NumberNest, your number lives in the app and works on any phone, over Wi-Fi or cellular data.
No. Your number stays yours for as long as its plan is paid, even if you never use it. If you only want to keep it, the Park plan costs less. Messages still arrive and calls go to voicemail.
Moving your number ends your plan with your current carrier. Your SIM keeps working until the transfer is done. Any contract fees are between you and them.
A few account details and your latest bill. In the UK you’ll also need a PAC code, which your carrier sends you. In Australia you’ll also need two forms of ID. The app guides you through each step.
No. NumberNest works in any country, over Wi-Fi or cellular data, on iPhone, Android and any web browser.
Yes, to numbers in the same country as your number. Sending to other countries comes soon after launch. Canadian numbers can answer calls from day one, and making calls comes soon, in the phone apps.
Yes. Ask your new carrier to bring it over, as you would with any number. There’s no exit fee. Your messages and call history stay in the app for 30 days, and you can download all of your data.
Prices come out before NumberNest opens. You won’t pay anything until your number has moved.
Confirm your email, and NumberNest will email you when it opens for your number. There’s nothing to pay and no card needed. You can leave the list from any email.
In the phone apps, emergency numbers open your phone’s own dialer, so the call reaches emergency services where you are. On the web, use your phone instead.
