Do mobile phone companies recycle phone numbers?
What's that all about? Do they re-issue phone numbers that have been in-active for some time?
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prior to number porting.carriers had thier own set of numbers that they used, when a subscriber left, that number would sit inactive for a preiod of time.this was usually a year, but as demand for numbers, increased the time they waited did. so, after a while the deactivated number would be thrown back into the pool of available numbers to be reassigned again.
in the prepaid world, this usually happens because people don't realize they can sometimes transfer a prepaid number, and under FCC regulation, the carrier is required to allow it, but people don't.so the numbers are usually put back into the pool much faster. turn around on prepaid numbers is usually around 6 weeks.with the exception of cingular's gophone, which acts so much like a contract service the only thing that doesn't get done is caller ID name assignment.
Yes. If you do not "port" your number to another company, then they can use your old number.
yes they do.
I never heard of this. I always thought that if you changed your number your old one stayed with you. Did you try putting the sim into a phone and ringing it to see if yours is active?
yes they do i worked for phones4u for a bit last year (you know scary mary) and it happened a lot
Yes they do, because I tried the same thing with my first mobile number from 8 years ago!
yes they do, we just bought a phone, and we keep getting online text messages from people who are looking for
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Yes they do. Once it has been out of service or decommissioned, i think they wait a while then recycle the number. That way, they won't run out of numbers any time soon.
Yes they do. I've actually done the same thing. Its pretty funny to me!
of course they do if it is unactive for 6 months, they will issue it to someone else.
This is because they have so few numbers and so many customers.
NO.
The answer is yes they do , however the quarantine any unused number for 5 months before marketing the number again.
if your number is disconnected for more then six months then the mobile phone companies do recycle the numbers and reissue the number to other clients.
Yes they do. since a user becomes dormant and doesn't re-activate the SIM after a certain period, the network operator can use the number on a new SIM (kinda keeps the sequence or they'd have run out of numbers or would soon be). so yeah, they can and they do.
Because we all change our pay as you go phones so often if numbers were not recycled we would run out of numbers
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