How long have you had your mobile number?

[Dr.EM]

Never changed my phone even! About 4 years I guess.

 

[Westyfield2]

My first number was when I was on Orange Pay-as-you-go which I changed between a few different handsets, but then when the iPhone 3G came out (July 11th 2008) I took out a contract on that and CBA to PAC my number over so I got a new O2 number for that.

Only problem with it is that because I was <18 when they came out the contract is in my mother's name (I couldn't take out a contract and doubt I'd have passed a credit check anyway) and I can't seem to find a way of changing the contract to be in my name now I'm >18 ... despite the fact that all along the £35 p/m has been my money!

they were 4 digit codes ( 10 digit numbers ) my 0831 xxxxxx became 07831 xxxxxx

Yeah I remember when my Dad's was 0973 on Hutchison Telecom but then became Orange and then got changed to being 07973.
Still got one of his original handsets somewhere..

 

[Raymond Lin]

Since 2002/3?

 

[GeForce]

7 years

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

I had my first phone in September 2000, and kept the same number ever since. That's 9½ years.

 

[gillywibble]

Who cares.

 

[Fuzz]

Since whatever date the iPhone first came out.

 

[cjbagnall]

4 years

 

[Vixen]

I got the contract my number came with when I was 17, so 8 years ago. I had a few different numbers as a teenager, but very few of my friends had phones so changing my number didn't make much difference back then.

 

[sygitius]

About 7 years

 

[zetec452]

6 months.

 

[Glaucus]

8months, always change with new contract. keeps junk phone calls to pretty much nothing and with so many free texts I just send a text to everyone in phonebook to tell them of phone number change.

 

[syke]

Like 6 months. Change mine pretty much every contract (changed networks for the last three). They've got easier to remember each time, luckily.

 

[Shimmy]

About 5 years I think since I got a contract. Still have the sims for the older PAYG phone's though I think.

No idea how old my dad's is but must be around 10 years at least, his is an easy to remember 0777 number too.

 

[Rich1988]

had mine since I got my first phone at 15 so 6 years, had my other mobile number for about 1.5 years

 

[gumbald]

About 8 years.

Used to have a cooler number, something like 07759 9799xx, but didn't appreciate it at the time. My dad used to have an 0403 number, that expired too after not using it for about 3 months!

 

[FISHGUTS]

about 20yrs, mine is one of the first set of mobile numbers issued

I think the first numbers issued were 0831 for voda and 0850 for Cellnet

Yes my old man has an 0831 number...Vodafone was talkland then if I remember.

 

[hyperzed]

5 years.. maybe a bit more

 

[Reginald]

Been with 02 for about 12 years since they were BT Cellnet. My phone was a brick and the screen was so small it only showed two lines of text at a time.

 

[merlin]

16 yrs