Use the order status page to activate your phone https://www.metrobyt-mobile.com/order-status The link in the email is bad. Credit to SKV4M
If you have port in difficulties with GV number call 800-518-7519 and them you have a land line and they will complete your port.
GV port is not complete until you get a confirmation email from google, and you get a text message from Metro 611 that the number transfer is complete.
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expiredlxtng posted Feb 12, 2026 5:01 PM
Select Customers: Metro by T-Mobile 128GB Apple iPhone 13 (Locked) + 1-Mo. Service
$55
$685
91% off
w/ Number Port-In + Free S/Hat Metro by T-Mobile
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The short version, you must call Metro to make sure any/all the number(s) you are porting over that previously succeed Port Reservation but failed Payment are not locked now to metro reservation once locked to metro they will not work with a new order or another wireless company. This deal is killing me softly, now I remember why I avoided Metro for so long
EDIT: after reading the comments on this thread, I see that many people are reporting that a google voice number can be ported over to metro again (like the good old days).
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Never said everybody was able to get the deal but I'll grant you I could change my wording from "almost everyone" to "a lot of people" were able to capitalize on the deal. You don't get up to almost +300 on a deal and almost 100 pages in the thread if the deal isn't working for a large number of users. And there's definitely been some change in the system as reports by individuals using GV numbers to port has gone from a large number of folks reporting able to use it to basically no one at all within just the last few days.
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so you never opened the phone for a year? what would happen to the battery? deep discharge?
As far as battery in a sealed phone being discharged, the iphone 13 was released in 2021 and Apple probably quit making them by 2023 if not earlier. But those iPhone 13's that Metro shipped in this deal came with battery level around 50% or so, not completely drained.
In my case, my suspicion is the mismatch in zip on metro account and Lyca mobile
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Yeah your proving my point, towards the end of the thread pretty much nobody is getting through with GV.
Is it a problem with them no longer taking google voice or is it a problem limiting the number of free phones per account?
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