Would porting a month-to-month feature phone line out cancel my unlimited?

Hi,
I have the following lines in my family plan.
1 = Unlimited
2 = Unlimited
3 = feature phone, month-to-month
4 = feature phone, contract
I want to port #3's phone number out to a different carrier since the user wants her own independent line.
I heard porting out a number automatically closes the line.
In my case, does it simply close the #3 line and leave everything else in tact?
I do not want to lose the UL lines because of this.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Porting out the month to month line #3 would simply cancel that line only, and the other 3 lines would not change.  Your bill will be reduced by ~$10-15 a month (depending on taxes and fees for that line) and the remaining 3 lines will share the minutes (and texting if applicable).
You will not lose the unlimited lines - only upgrading those lines will result in loss of the unlimited data.

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