Alasdair wrote:
> 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.

[snip]

Is it the case that if one pays for a non-geographic number (e.g. 0800,
0845), one gets to keep it as long as one pays for it. If so, would
this not be the way forward?