Cheap personalised mobile number??

A_little_stressed!!

Does anyone know a cheap way to get a personalised mobile phone number? Nothing to special, just a few repeated numbers or something!

Mandles

My cousin got it free. She just rung up her phone provider (i think she was on t-mobile at the time) and explained it was because it would be handy as she has business and wanted a clearer number and got a number just like you are after so ring your provider.. it may be free.

A_little_stressed!!

i'm with orange & they've told me it will cost £10 to get another number, and that will be just a randon one, or £50 - £300 for a special one!

I want to use my old PAYG num, but keep the PAYG account open (Got loads'v free txs, evening calls etc) but it has to close if they take the number!!

had a fab Easymobile number but rang today & they've all been given back to T-mobile!!!

Alfie_E

A_little_stressed!! wrote:

Does anyone know a cheap way to get a personalised mobile phone number? Nothing to special, just a few repeated numbers or something!

Keep acquiring SIM cards until get one you like? There are plenty of free SIM card offers posted to the MSE forum. I’ve had some Virgin Mobile ones sitting around for quite a while that I’d never even looked at. I just looked at one yesterday. First one I opened ends 777, and the rest of it’s not too bad.

A more direct approach would be to try to buy a SIM card in a shop. Last time a bought one abroad, without asking, the counter staff dumped a whole pile of SIM packs on the counter and told me to pick the number I wanted. You could try asking in a mobile phone shop here, if they’ll let you go through all the SIM packs they’ve got.

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Also try getting some sims of ebay.

Although they are free from O2 i sold a number ending 88 89 90 for £5.

Look for buy it now ones that are newly listed or cheap ones ending soon.

utilitybroker

A_little_stressed!! wrote:

I want to use my old PAYG num, but keep the PAYG account open

Once you change number you lose control of it,and if you port a number the account is closed,and you lose the credit etc .

You cant change the number for the original account and keep the original account open ,and then port the old number as far as i am aware.

Alfie_E

utilitybroker wrote:

You cant change the number for the original account and keep the original account open ,and then port the old number as far as i am aware.

That’s not always true. Vodafone are certainly willing to perform a number swap between two Vodafone PAYG accounts. That allows you to pull a number off an old account, but still keep the old account going, giving it the number from the new account. Of course, Orange are able to do the same – any network can move telephone numbers between their own SIM cards at will. A Little Stressed would have to ask Orange if they are willing to do this.

Dan29

A_little_stressed!! wrote:

i'm with orange & they've told me it will cost £10 to get another number, and that will be just a randon one, or £50 - £300 for a special one!

Try ringing again and speaking to a different customer services person. Last time I needed a new number I had to pay the £10 for a 'standard' number but was given a list to pick from. Although the really good ones presumably go into special 'gold', 'silver' etc categories, the 'standard' ones still included things like 079x9090999.

Letstalk_2

I Bought Mine from www.EazyNumbers.co.uk and they supplied it on a payg sim of my choice and it was only £55 all in

silo24

I seriously recommend ebay.....

I bought two T-Mobile sims 07939 aaa700 and aaa800 for £20. (aaa is the same 3 numbers!!)

Having two essentially consecutive numbers makes things a lot easier for me running my small business, Sales on one and Support on the other.

The best thing with ebay is you can see the numbers (more or less) straight away and don't need to faff around.

reehsetin

keep getting free sims, especially from o2 i got numbers in sequence, me and OH have matching numbers and they're easy e.g.
07 p mm hhh u hh
then mine has the next digit on the end, have another one in the sequence but nothing to use it for yet.