How long have you had your current phone number?

[MrsTumbletap]

Got my new SIM and did the usual request my Pac code thing and can now put it in my phone and get my existing number transferred. But then I thought....I could just get a new number...... but....I have had the same number for about 16 years!

Do you lot always keep your number?

I get loads of PPI rubbish calls which would disappear if I got a new number but then I would have to let everyone know my new number from the doctors, to dentist to the vet, work etc and that seems like a faff.

What do you do?

22 years. I’m very attached and wouldn’t give it up.

23 years. Since I got my first phone.

My aunt got her phone at the same time and has a related Number. As others have said you could choose what Number you wanted from a limited selection.

25 for UK mobile
10 ish for French mobile
Nearly 3 for fixed

20 years club here!

@MrsTumbletap

So everyone on here is a number keeper!

I suppose the only benefit would be not receiving the annoying calls about PPI and surveys. But most of you have magically managed to avoid those.

Not necessarily. Most numbers are recycled now. I've had my personal number since I moved back to the U.K. 19 years ago. But I changed jobs and got a new work number last year. I keep getting messages about screwfix collections in Devon. I'm a lawyer based in London so I'm pretty sure they are for the number's previous owner.

About 4 years 🤷‍♀️

Swapped my number when we moved from o2 to Vodafone. I was getting a lot of nuisance calls so decided to change it. Had my o2 one for about 10 years before that, maybe longer

Dh has had his for around 20 years he likes it

Same one always for my mobile so 20+ years. I get about one spam call every 6 months.

Landline also about 20 years, very few spam calls on that either. We are ex-directory and TPS.

Parents have had the same one for 45 years.

25+ years. I’m never going to change it.

Since I went on to contract so 13 years, since I was 18 I guess.

I still have a load of old phone numbers like my exes etc. I do sometimes wonder whether they’ve kept the same number and whether I’d reach them if I texted them! DH if you’re reading this I definitely haven’t done that, promise

6 years. I had to change it as I had a stalker. Before that I had my old one a long time!

I've had this number now for about 7 years. I can't remember why I changed it , I think I went to a different provider. I know 15 years ago I was with 3, then T-mobile and now EE.

I started to get a lot of calls and texts asking for the same lady again and again. One man still continued to text me now and then even though I said I wasn't the lady he was looking for. He eventually gave up.I haven't had anyone trying to talk to her for a while now though.

But interestingly, last year I upgraded my phone and the man told me I would have to pay a little extra that day to keep my original number! I was shocked because I always thought it could be transferred no problem, but they wanted to provide me with a new number which I wasn't keen on as it would take ages to contact everyone I knew and update number, so I paid to keep it!

About 20 trillion years give or take. Ish. Think I’ve only changed it once.

19 years!

Since 1994. Only number I've had. Nice sequence of numbers. I got it with the original One 2 One mobile with the cradle and aerial you had to pull up.

20 years back when I got my first mobile - BT Cell net free for opening a bank account.

2 years, like a pp I went overseas and lost my old number. I don’t think I’d had that one forever though either, I can’t remember what would have made me change it.

Mobile number 23 years

House phone number I've had for 16 years, but I transferred it from my Nans house and she'd had it since the 1950s

10 years,know it by hard so not getting a new one now.

About 17/18 years.

@Chickencalledberyl

22 years. Back in days of being presented with a list of numbers in the BTCellnet shop and being allowed to choose. I've got a great number

Me too!

But it was 1993 so 27 years. Blimey.

It was one of these teeny tiny phones.

Had my number since I was 15 so 17 years now... won’t be changing it, I just block a number if they are crap calls

23 years

14 years. Was on PAYG until I got a “real job” after uni and got on contract with what was then T Mobile. Can’t see me ever changing it now. My Nanna has had the same landline number (or a variation of it as numbers have been added) since they moved to the house in 1954. That’s pretty good going!

About 20 years, took me ages to memorise it, but have recently found out (thanks to mumsnet) that I give it out using the wrong format.

My mum now has my original number from 1998, which I gave her when I went to a contract later that year. So 22 years for both of us.