Most Expensive Phone Number
Written by: tom Filed Under: Electronics, Real Estate, World on September 30th, 2006In many areas of the world you can phone switch carriers but keep your phone number. This is known as phone number portability. Caller id and cell phones have encouraged many people to stop memorizing phone numbers, because simply by hitting a button, a person can connect to someone who recently called. It is easy to see that some phone numbers are easier to remember than others. In May of 2006 the most expensive phone number was sold in a charity auction in Doha, Qatar.
The expensive phone number 666 6666 reportedly sold for 10m Qatari riyals or £1.5m, or around $2,750,000 US. In the West some consider 6 the imperfect number, but this is apparently not the consensus in Qatar.
The Register reports that the Chinese number 8888 8888 was previously the most expensive phone number, selling for £270,000 to Sichuan Airlines.
MP3 Player
Guitar 
Cell Phone 
6666666666 true devilish
y is my # on here?????
haha funny @chaz
i want that number
who own phone no like this: 01234567… ??
r they stupid to spend that much bones 4 a frgin. just get a normal # like everyone else. it doesn’t really matter. wtf man!!
I agree its a waste of money, and then just think about the fact that thousands of thousand of random people know your number, and you would get calls 24/7(literally).plus those who dont know its a real number, and dial it for fun…and i would rather have 777 7777
wow, what kind of an person wants to pay soooo much money for a stupid phone #? i prefer what i’ve got, random mixed numbers, not alot of the same, so prank callers cant guess the number.
people who buy numbers like this have gotta have a lot of extra money. id pay a lot of money if i had it for 867-5309 hah.
what the hell why would you buy a phone number??????….. If i were them i would spend it on a diamond tennis bracelet and a swarovski crystales sidekick III….. YAH, Now were talking
there’s no point in spending that much. cellphones have built-in memory so you don’t have to memorize phone numbers. buying the most expensive cellphone is more sensible than this.
i own #56789 last 5 digits of my mobile and that too free of cost ha….ha….ha….ha.
1) The $$$ went to charity… it was a charity auction.
2) I highly doubt a person bought this number, more likely it was a company. For a business, having an easy-to-remember number is pretty important. Just think of all the ads you hear where they turn their phone number into a jingle or repeat it a million times just in hopes that someone will remember it. If a company bought it, it’s money well spent as the returns will be great.
I want the number
012-345-6789
i wanna phone number like this:
1-234-567-8910
Can I request roman numerals for my phone? I don’t like numerals…
you got to be an idiot to spend that much money on a freaking phone number
life isn’t to waste on a phone number it is to enjoy it.
You must remember that this is Qatar, which has the highest GDP per capita of any country in the world. They can afford this kind of expenditure. And as was mentioned by someone above, this was most likely a business expense. This business will probably be able to recoup some of that cost by the easily remembered phone #.