ExpatTel ports your +1 number to a service designed for people abroad. Voicemail and SMS delivered to the ExpatTel app, portal and email — from $6/month.
When Americans move abroad, the standard advice — "just cancel your line" — is terrible advice. That number is on file with your bank, the IRS, healthcare, family, and every service you\'ve set up in the last decade. Cancelling means chasing every one of them down.
ExpatTel is the alternative. We port your +1 mobile number under the FCC\'s Wireless Local Number Portability rules and hold it live from anywhere in the world. Calls go to voicemail; SMS and voicemail transcripts are pushed to our app, web portal and email. You can\'t make outbound calls from the number — but you never lose it, and everything that reaches it reaches you.
Regulated by the US Federal Communications Commission. Typical time: a few hours to 24 hours.
Create an account, pick a monthly or yearly plan, and enter your +1 mobile number.
You'll need three things from the carrier you're leaving: your account number, your account PIN or transfer PIN, and the billing name on the account. Every major US carrier makes these available online or via a short call.
Enter them in the ExpatTel portal. This is the standard information any US port-in requires — it exists to prevent number theft.
Most US wireless-to-wireless ports complete within a few hours; the FCC standard is 24 hours. You'll get a real-time ETA in the app.
Your existing SIM stops working around the same time — before that, update anything tied to your number (bank 2FA, iMessage, WhatsApp). Nothing else needed; incoming calls go to voicemail, SMS and voicemail transcripts to the app, portal and email.
ExpatTel can port from every US mobile carrier and MVNO, including:
A few conditions apply. None of them are surprising, but check they don't affect you.
Everything asked most often by United States customers before they port.
ExpatTel supports 8 countries. Here are the other launched landing pages:
Sign up takes 5 minutes. Nothing gets billed until your number ports in successfully.
Start your port