Just wondering.... as I got my current phone number while on contract with Orange way back in....

APRIL 1998

and thanks to Orange giving me a nice cheap,pay for calls and texts each month and no line rental deal, I've stuck with it - getting the odd phone passed down from Dad as he upgrades, etc etc, and just swapped SIMs over.

So, in this apparent day & age of getting new numbers every week or so, how long have you had yours?

Had my work phone number since August 2000 and my private number for just over 3 years.

Two weeks.

I always change contracts to benefit from offers available at the time.

I have just connected to 02 250 (

Started off with Orange too, still there, same number since, erm let me think about this, about March/April 1996... Mind you it was a brick that couldn't send (but could receive) text messages lol

July 1997......got it just as i got ready for uni, in case of missing trains on late nights.

salford is "a bit rough" at night.....

and, despite shifting networks once and one mugging, i'm still contactable on the same number...

0898...

Started off with Orange too, still there, same number since, erm let me think about this, about March/April 1996... Mind you it was a brick that couldn't send (but could receive) text messages lol

Damn, didn't think anyone nowadays would have one from that long ago. Beaten by two years.

It was my first mobile phone ever too, so I've only EVER had one number through my entire mobile phone career.

EDIT: 0898? :eek: Hope I've never spoken to you before then!? How much do they pay to make you sound like "Gwyneth" ??

Had mine since 2001.... 9 different phones on it though :eek:

I can't find bills back before Dec 98 (following a split up and move out) but I remember having an argument with Orange about getting roaming activated on my account before I had had it 6 months (by about 2 weeks!).

I did also have a BTGenie number in addition (600 free texts and 50 minutes off peak a day for

It was my first mobile phone ever too' date=' so I've only EVER had one number [/quote']

after leaving uni, i ran a second phone with vodafone because it was cheaper than paying the cost on t-mobile for calling my (at the time) g/f.

and jason, it's not gywneth....but no point pretending you didn't know that already.....

hmmmm.... I've got 3 numbers... one I've had since 2000.... another I've had since 2001 (but it's been ported over from one network to another a coupla times ) and another I've for just a little under 12 months...

don't ask why I've got 3

don't ask why I've got 3

Why have you got three numbers?

1998 for me... got a Genie contract which was great, unlimited free texts and a fair wad of free off-peak minutes and a free "bannana phone" (was cool at the time lol).. ive still got the same number... still with genie (o2 online) altho now im on 500 txt and 200 x-net anytime minutes with full data GPRS and media messaging... all this for

At least 7 years for me , though I'd had a couple of other numbers before that.

It was handy working in a phone shop at the time as I could pick a number I wanted

It'll be 6 years at Christmas. It's an Orange PAYG and I'm on my third handset, a Nokia 6600 - just wish it would stop rebooting at odd moments - did it once while I was on a call :eek:

since about march but gettin it changed on friday when i get another new phone

I remember walking around London with my dad's mobile in around 1995 I think it was. One of the first GSM phones.

Bearing in mind that was 1995 and I was 15 at the time, everyone looked at me in disbelief that a not only someone had a new trick GSM mobile, but it was a teenager

How times have changed, eh?

I would still be on Orange with my personal phone if it wasn't for a stinking incident with them and a four figure bill I had to cough up If that were the case, I'd be on 8 years. As it stands, I'm on 4 with only my work mobile (don't have personal any more because of the above)

I cant tell you what year it was as my bills dont go back that far, but i've had the same phone number since the day Orange started!! only difference is when they added the 7 to mobile numbers. eg, instead of 0976 it became 07976.

I was a satellite/ariel technician at the time and we'd got the contract for selling Orange mobiles locally. lost count of the number of phones i've had on the same number but its well in the double figures, first phone was a brick like Motorola with a red LED display that only made phone calls - no texts, no games, nothing else.

I always get asked to take part in trials with orange before they let the general public have em cos i've been with em so long- I had Wildfire the voice activated answerphone thing before it was released to the general public then mysteriously dropped not long after! - it was great, if you were depressed and you told her, she would moo like a cow to cheer you up!!

Also had WAP/GPRS/Multimedia Messaging etc etc before it was on general release.

Sadly I am about to do a PAC and take my number over to o2 cos I cant get any signal on Orange where I live anymore, also they seem to have become money grabbing b'stards who dont give a hoot about existing customers!

always wondered what happened to Wildfire.

mind you, given the way my Orange bills have been of late, not having access to another paid for facility is a good idea (current personal best 747 english pounds....:eek: )

might be cheaper to run a second phone again . not that i fancy a new phone, oh no....

1998 for me... got a Genie contract which was great, unlimited free texts and a fair wad of free off-peak minutes and a free "bannana phone" (was cool at the time lol).. ive still got the same number... still with genie (o2 online) altho now im on 500 txt and 200 x-net anytime minutes with full data GPRS and media messaging... all this for

I've had my number 5 1/2 years. Started off with One2one in '98 with the free weekends and had that 2 years(pay in advance) when that contract first finished I got another phone on pay in advance. Then when they both ran out I cancelled them got another one on proper contract. I've had that number since 2000 as it's so easy to remember and took it with me from T-mobile to Vodafone 3G this summer.

Well, I'm going to have to change my attitude to people chopping & changing numbers then. Seems a lot of people have had their numbers longer than me.

I *KNEW* I should have kept my first number from '97

Just coming upto 4 years on my current number....

Steve

Had my current number for a couple of months now. Before that I'd had the same number since 1998.

Longest I've had a number is 12 months. I just chop and change my number often. I've 3 contracts on the go at the mo, 1 with Vodafone since June, 1 on o2 since June, 1 on 3 since January. I've also got 1 on PAYG with o2 and another PAYG on Orange.

And I get my contracts either free or I make profit on them, the o2 contract has earnt me just shy of