In article <63rto29pg8d5a7efoicnbifc92cq3a8fhf@4ax.com>,
mail@bobaxter.coo.uk says...

> 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.

You mean like 916-CALL-TURK? (spot the reference...)