How long have you had your mobile number?

Garage_Doors

Originally the Swankers

Jun 28, 2008

11,789

Brighton

• Dec 9, 2014

• #1

Following a discussion on a social media site regarding mobile phones and numbers, it seems when people buy new phones they change the number,
Found this a bit strange personally and wondered why.

I've have the same number since 1994 and see no reason to change it.

Do people on here change them regularly?

 

Last edited: Dec 9, 2014

Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014

23,530

• Dec 9, 2014

• #2

I've had mine ten years. With the ease of switching it to another phone it makes no sense to change it.

 

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scooter1

How soon is now?

Sep 12, 2006

4,730

Past the Leisure Centre, left at the lights

• Dec 9, 2014

• #3

Since 1998. I also hung onto it on a PAYG deal when I moved abroad for a couple of years

 

Driver8

On the road...

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Jul 31, 2005

15,978

North Wales

• Dec 9, 2014

• #4

I have only ever had one number since I first got a mobile phone over 20 years ago.

 

The Merry Prankster

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Aug 19, 2006

5,577

Shoreham Beach

• Dec 9, 2014

• #5

Years.

 

Hamilton

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Jul 7, 2003

12,454

Brighton

• Dec 9, 2014

• #6

Since 1997. I'm rather attached to it now.

 

Ninja Elephant

Doctor Elephant

Feb 16, 2009

18,855

• Dec 9, 2014

• #7

10 years for me too, which only really means my number has had ample opportunity to be bought and sold.

 

Goldstone Rapper

Rediffusion PlayerofYear

Jan 19, 2009

14,865

BN3 7DE

• Dec 9, 2014

• #8

13 years.

 

dazzer6666

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Mar 27, 2013

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Burgess Hill

• Dec 9, 2014

• #9

Have always kept the number when I've switched.....don't know how long but 15 years ish ?

 

BN9 BHA

DOCKERS

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Jul 14, 2013

21,537

Newhaven

• Dec 9, 2014

• #10

I have had my number since 2002.

 

Mtoto

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Sep 28, 2003

1,841

• Dec 9, 2014

• #11

13 years. The chap who had it before me went off to become the main PR for Everton. For years it was a right pain when they sacked their manager or made a big signing, and hacks up and down the country dug his name out of their contact books. I was getting two calls a minute at all hours of the day and night when they sold Rooney to Man U.

 

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severnside gull

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May 16, 2007

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By the seaside in West Somerset

• Dec 9, 2014

• #12

1997 for me......mobile phones have come a long way since then

 

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat

Aug 18, 2009

65,442

Beside the seaside, beside the sea

• Dec 9, 2014

• #13

13/14 years.

 

Spun Cuppa

Thanks Greens :(

Jul 2, 2009

5,352

'We're on the road to nowhere...'

• Dec 9, 2014

• #14

Got a good SIM only deal with Tesco about four and a half years ago, and have put it in about five phones since...

 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,960

Living In a Box

• Dec 9, 2014

• #15

Around 15 odd years or so, cannot remember when I was first issued with a mobile phone at work.

 

Norman Potting

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Nov 5, 2006

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Sussex, Sussex not by the sea and actually nearer

• Dec 9, 2014

• #16

Christmas 2000 when I got my first mobile, now in its fifth handset (different sim card though). Can't see why I would want to change it unless I started getting stalker type phone calls from Gilllian Anderson.

 

Mowgli37

Enigmatic Asthmatic

Jan 13, 2013

6,371

Sheffield

• Dec 9, 2014

• #17

Since about 2007 I think. Still on my first phone.

 

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Vegas Seagull

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Jul 10, 2009

7,782

• Dec 9, 2014

• #18

Euro 96 same number since, apart from a 7 slipped in to all, after the leading zero, long ago to boost capacity

 

Dan Aitch

New member

May 31, 2013

2,287

• Dec 9, 2014

• #19

How long?

Eleven digits.

 

Garage_Doors

Originally the Swankers

Jun 28, 2008

11,789

Brighton

• Dec 9, 2014

• Thread starter
• #20

Dan Aitch said:

How long?

Eleven digits.

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As above was 10 but they slipped and extra digit in.