It usually takes 5-7 business days to actually swap from your current long distance carrier to the carrier you select from our plans. To verify that you are on your new service, you may call 1-700-555-4141 (toll free call), the recording would say something like "Thank you for choosing ___________ communications". You may even want to call now to see who your current long distance carrier is. To see who your intrastate or intra-lata long distance carrier is, call 1-(area code)-700-4141.