You could always just restart your new Cingular account in your fathers name and hten do a change of financial responsibility once the acct is old enough.

FYI,

Verizon Wireless will allow ports in this case. If I wanted the phone number under my mothers social security brought under mine as a port then there would be no problem. As long as the Cingular representative fills in the information correctly, VZW will release the mobile number. VZW will want to contact the original owner of the mobile number first.

I've done many *different name/social* phone number ports INTO Verizon Wireless. There is no difference in ports OUT of VZW.

But why when my spouse died, was I not allowed to just change the social and name on the account and keep our contract, which had no terms then as it was just month-to-month?

First of all sorry for your loss, second you should of not said anything about wanting to change the account into your name. When a SSN number needs to be changed it is a change of financial responsibility. This is not a port situation.
To answer the second question. When porting started both accounts had to be in the same SSN. Meaning a child couldn't port from their parents account w/o first splitting the account and then changing into the child's name with the same carrier then porting to the new company, kinda redundant, why start an account with a company whom all you want to do is leave. The rules have since changed. Now with Verizon you can port in and of coarse out with accounts as long as all of the info matches. How do I know thi...
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Thanks. 😢

I know now I should have just kept quiet, paid off the HUGE bill incurred during hospital stay, then signed with Cingular and ported. The amount was unexpected and I had no income, so paying it off took months! Verizon cancelled me without notice, and that was the end of being able to port.