I've owned mobile phones since I was 16 (12 years ago), but I've had my current number for well over 7 years thanks to MNP (Mobile Number Portability).

Had my no. for I think for about 14 yrs :eek: Really confused me when they added the 7 :confused: kept forgetting my no.

Must have spent thousands over the years :eek: can remember putting notes in my map book where i could get Orange signal

mdk1, Orange was launched in April 94...

Could you port numbers that long ago?

first phone was a few years ago. had it for about a year or just over probs, then changed phone and number and got a sony ericson-got a b.f, got a massive bill, chagned phone, now got a samsung which i have had for a couple of months probs!!!

When did 'M' reg cars come out? '95 ish? That long!

Got a mobile free with my first ever brand new car. A Citroen AX

The phone was originally analogue and 0831 ****** then changed to 07831 ****** and digital. Been with Vodafone since day one. I even dug the phone out of the cellar not long ago, it's bloody enormous and something else I'd forgotten was that it was pre-SMS ie there are no letters on the keypad. How did you use the memory :confused:

Slightly related. Try www.mockia.com for all your retro requirements. The link can be a bit flakey but worth persevering. A colleague of mine recently bought the 'hands free' kit.

Slightly related. Try www.mockia.com[/url'] for all your retro requirements. The link can be a bit flakey but worth persevering. A colleague of mine recently bought the 'hands free' kit.

I like the Old Skool Mockia Mc DJ badboy 4 life ruff-enuff in da house etcetera... headset

The Ultimate Handsfree is pretty inspired too!

I've just renewed my current contact for another year, having had this number for a year now...

...Had my works number for 3 years, which is how long I've been working there...

...And I've another phone here somewhere that's been going for 5 or 6 years... occasionally dig it out and send a text to myself to keep it going (was on contract, now PAYG, with the same

mdk1' date=' Orange was launched in April 94...

Could you port numbers that long ago?[/quote']

They did it When Hutchinson Telecome became Orange at our local shop,when they first changed they swaped no. over. Phones had to be sent back and no. put on it somehow, took about a week :eek:

Coverage really patchy, but better than BT or Vodaphone :eek:

Had Rabbit (remember them?), then a Mercury one2one, then a year later a Hutchison Telecom "Orange", and been with them ever since. My wife now uses my original number.

mdk1... That's interesting! Orange did some very cool things back then to get people to join... I didn't realise porting numbers was one of them.

For the record, I started on Cellnet Analogue with a Sony "Mars Bar", then got some godaweful Samsung thing on the same network, then moved on to Orange and was with them for ages and ages and ages, starting with Ericsson phones then a couple of early Motorolla's, then nothing but Nokia's until I moved over to Three (yuk!) when they first started. Spent a miserable year with them, using an NEC phone, then moved to One2One with a Sony Ericsson. A year later I joined Vodafone with a Sony Ericsson 3G phone, which is my current phone.

I've had the same number since I joined Orange all those years ago!

Just to add, I've also had a number of Pagers along the way, ranging from contracted message pagers, to numeric and message "caller-pays" models.

I still like pagers... They allow you to choose when you want to talk to someone!

I still like pagers... They allow you to choose when you want to talk to someone!

So do mobile phones, its called not answering the thing.

Had Rabbit (remember them?), then a Mercury one2one, then a year later a Hutchison Telecom "Orange", and been with them ever since. My wife now uses my original number.

Rabbit I think the only place i can remember with rabbit cover was the Hollywood Bowl in Gillingham, It never did take off

I was working in Currys when Rabbit launched. All I can remember about them was the scantily-clad chick who used to come round regularly trying to get us to flog as many phones as we could.

Been with Orange since they started, so God knows how long that is now !!

I rmember have to BUY a phone for about

I've had mine since Dec 1998. That was back when O2 were called BT Cellnet. I've stuck with it if only for the reason I can't be bothered telling anybody that I've got a new number.

Does it bug anybody else that get you a text from somebody that reads "this is my new number" except they've sent it from the new phone and not signed their name? How are you meant to know who its from?

Stuart

I started on BT Mobile in 1998, then was moved to BT Cellnet, Cellnet, then O2.

They're ok.

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I've still got one, well I don't use it. Do they still work? It was a vodafone Zap I think...

1998 for my current one. I got my first "cellular phone" in 1991 or 92 - "mobile" would be the wrong term - it was a Phillips carphone complete with a huge box in the boot and cables everywhere!

Who remembers CB radio? I remember getting my first "approved" set from Comet in Carlisle the day they became legal in 1981. I'd had one before, of course

I'm very sad to say that I've had to rid myself of my mobile phone number after 6 long and expensive years with Vodafone.

I'm still with Vodafone, but I had 2.5 years worth of harassment from a bunny boiler and things have finally come to a head.

Have had my mobile and same no for the past 5 years, Mitsubishi Trium got it for a holiday in Scotland when Vodafone were the only ones who covered the area I was staying in.

It's a decent enough phone, sends and recieves texts, has a little game on it where a penguin shoves blocks of ice into holes

I dont want it too be all singing and all dancing, and 'hoodies' don't want to nick it off me!

I used to have a cb radio too my handle was pixi, strange that

Getting back to mobiles, i've had my number since i first got my phone in '96/97. It may change shortly though if i have to cancel my contract to get a decent upgrade. i am the only person i know who doesnt have a camera phone, currently using a nokia 6510 but going for a 6230i.