How long have you had your mobile number?

[Garage_Doors]

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?

 

[Eeyore]

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

 

[scooter1]

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

 

[Driver8]

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

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Years.

 

[Hamilton]

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

 

[Ninja Elephant]

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

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

13 years.

 

[dazzer6666]

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

 

[BN9 BHA]

I have had my number since 2002.

 

[Mtoto]

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.

 

[severnside gull]

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

 

[Thunder Bolt]

13/14 years.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

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]

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

 

[Norman Potting]

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]

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

 

[Vegas Seagull]

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

 

[Dan Aitch]

How long?

Eleven digits.

 

[Garage_Doors]

How long?

Eleven digits.

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