Recycled Mobile Phone Number

Cisco001

Change the number then.

Get a new free SIM from place like Lebara or Asda.
You will have a new mobile number, then request a PAC code.
PAC the number from Lebara/ Asda to your existing service provider.

mgfvvc

Spankles86 said:

I just wanted to pop a warning to everyone changing their number.  5 months ago my son got a new phone and with that a new number with Sky

It's not much different to land lines. I moved house in 2013 and the number I got had been used by a pub landlord up the road. Although he had moved to another county several years before I got the number there were constant calls for him. It took more than 5 years before they tailed off to less than one a week.

Neil_Jones

mgfvvc said:

Spankles86 said:

I just wanted to pop a warning to everyone changing their number.  5 months ago my son got a new phone and with that a new number with Sky

It's not much different to land lines. I moved house in 2013 and the number I got had been used by a pub landlord up the road. Although he had moved to another county several years before I got the number there were constant calls for him. It took more than 5 years before they tailed off to less than one a week.

Yeah when I had my landline number it was clearly recycled and I used to randomly get a bunch of calls from people asking for somebody who lived at an address 10 minutes drive away, mostly people who were using out of date "sucker" lists.