"Alasdair" <mail@bobaxter.coo.uk> wrote in message
news:63rto29pg8d5a7efoicnbifc92cq3a8fhf@4ax.com...
> Telephone numbers are very useful to individuals and businesses and
> become part of their identity like a postal address. However, as the
> law currently stands, the user of a phone number has no proprietary
> right or interest in it. It belongs to the telco pure and simple.
>
> People pay large sums of money for a "golden number" yet in a dispute
> with the telco, they could lose that number at a stroke with no
> compensation. I'm thinking in particular of the poster who ported an
> old number from Orange to Vodafone PAYG and because she didn't use her
> phone for over 3 months appears to have lost any claim to the number.
>
> I don't know what other users of this ng think but I think we should
> petition Ofcom to change the rules so that once a number is issued to
> a customer, he should have some proprietary and inalienable right to
> it.
>
> --
> Alasdair.
You will be ignored. You have no right to any number issued to you. If you
choose to pay more for a specific number or sequence of numbers you must be
stupid. People don't associate numbers with a person or company just
because it is a certain sequence. Some can be more difficult to remember
and dial than a random number.
Do some market research.
As for campaigning for someone that doesn't read the terms and conditions of
an agreement or chooses not to stick to them, maybe you're right - campaign
for IQ tests for people entering in to contracts. How they survive in the
outside world is beyond me.
Companies tried getting memorable numbers with directory enquiries, but why
would I remember 118118 before I remembered 118500? 500 might have more of
a meaning to me than 118.