Cellphone Numbers

Cellphone Numbers

Whats the go over here with buying cellphone numbers?


I want a feckin awesome one for my business (cos the Vodafone one I got is crap, and wanna get a T'com one anyway lol) so how the bluddy hell so I do it?

T'com are hopeless... lol

Telecom you just go in to a shop with your phone and ask for your number.
With vodafone, you need to be on a plan to get to pick your number. Or browse through all the prepay packs until you find the one you're looking for...

I don't have a Telecom phone yet... will have to 'invest' in one of their pig ugly CDMA handsets until they get back to reality and at least 3G late this year (thats the trial at least)

Did that at Vodafone and now my phone number has more digits than my credit card

I got a nice little 6 digit one. Gotta love plans sometimes

if you are switching from vodafone to a telecom contract, you can ask in-store for a particular number. granted you can't always get what ya want, but telecom have recently expanded their scope of phone numbers so that should open a few doors.

i used to work for the pricks.

Yes ewe do Yomcat... sometimes

Didn't we all... (and I'm still doin work for Telstra - the proper one, not the one over here lol)

One question before getting into the numbers, why???? Especially if T'Scum are plabnning on ditching their current CDMA network to go to 3GSM? Their current hardware wont operate on the new network!

I'm hearing the 3GSM network is going to be VERY limited.  Just as a warning.

Vodas are currently operating it, only limitations at the moment is the bad that it is currently operating on - limited range, so coverage is a small issue, this is being workled on. Everything else is fully functional. Telecom's version may have its limitations I don't really know.

Try trade me, for the older shorter numbers

It's the suppliers fault.

Telecom wont be taking the CDMA network down until 2013. I was talking to
a mate on the train this morning who is still "in" at Telecom. Much like how the
025 network was slowly weeded out, the same will happen with the CDMA network.

Telecom are going to be carrying the N-Series of Nokia phones for the new network, wil make
a nice change.

How does that work?

TradeMe - NZ's ebay.

You buy an old phone, and it comes with a number already. So you basically get some geezer's old number.

Yeah, but I don't want said Geezer's old phone