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?

Like @reepicheepsconscience, My parents' landline started as a 4 digit number in 1964 (our first ever phone), had a fifth number added in front, then a sixth.
I've had three mobile numbers, all with vthe same prefix. Infuriatingly, the only one of them I remember, and default to whenever I try to say or write my number, is my first work mobile number. I think I had to keep repeating it then, as mobile numbers were new and unfamiliar, so it seared itself on my memory.

About 20 years