Moving multiple phones from AT&T to Verizon

[ycoidi2000]

I have decided to make the jump from my unlimited AT&T to Verizon with both my iPhone and my wife's. To prepare for the joyous occasion, I tried to do a dummy order apple.com to see how the process works. I see that I can enter my current number to port over while creating a new Verizon account. When I try a second phone, I seem to have to go through the same process (selecting a new family share account, etc.). I see no way of linking the two phones to the same new account.

Has anyone had experience with this in the past? Is there a better way to purchase them?

Thanks!

 

[mattopotamus]

try doing the dummy purchase through verizon.com and see if it works.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

Do it separately for both iPhones then call Verizon up to merge the accounts. They do it all the time.

 

[nostresshere]

Hope it all works out for you. Assume you have already checked out coverage, contract, pricing, etc.

Not saying ATT or Verizon is better. Actually, I think they have similar problems and issues.

 

[ycoidi2000]

Hope it all works out for you. Assume you have already checked out coverage, contract, pricing, etc.

Not saying ATT or Verizon is better. Actually, I think they have similar problems and issues.

Yep. For my area, we have solid LTE for Verizon and 3G for AT&T. I'm more rural than most areas, so I feel lucky I am getting LTE! I will be switching away from unlimited AT&T, but I never really hit the virtual cap. I know I'll be spending more with Verizon, but the faster LTE on my Verizon iPad in addition to getting a signal at work on my iPad and not on my iPhone pretty much sealed it.

 

[pdutta2000]

Yep. For my area, we have solid LTE for Verizon and 3G for AT&T. I'm more rural than most areas, so I feel lucky I am getting LTE! I will be switching away from unlimited AT&T, but I never really hit the virtual cap. I know I'll be spending more with Verizon, but the faster LTE on my Verizon iPad in addition to getting a signal at work on my iPad and not on my iPhone pretty much sealed it.

I'm actually doing the same thing as you but will be doing it at a store to ensure that all goes well. For me the signal is the most important thing and Verizon has a better one on the east coast. I'll be leaving Unlimited for 6GB per month and will save around $40/month. The benefit of having the Hotspot feature is also great. The reality is that I use most of my data when on wifi so our joint account has rarely crossed 1.5GB per month. I figure 3GB/month should be plenty. I hate giving up unlimited but I really need a better calling signal.