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Not in every country in Europe. UK for instance you can't (is that considered Europe now?). You can't even keep your landline when you move house.
by dalore 9y ago
Not in every country in Europe. UK for instance you can't (is that considered Europe now?).
You can't even keep your landline when you move house.
- stordoff 9y ago> You can't even keep your landline when you move house. You can if its within the same exchange area.
- dalore 9y agoSo not really.
- aloicious235 9y agoYes UK is in Europe and I think will be for the next few million years - oh you meant the Political body - the European Union. Oh yes we're still in that and will be for a few years at least. As to the landline number, you can keep your landline number if you don't move into an area where the phone numbers 'region' code is not applicable. Just like I am sure that is the case for every other country in the world (or thereabouts). I am curious to know with regard to USA phone numbers where I cannot tell a mobile from a landline by just looking at the number (e.g, UK Mobile numbers can be identified because they are 07xxx numbers) but US mobile numbers look like landlines and have the same area code. Can you move to a different state and keep your number even if the area code for that state is completely different?
- bskap 9y agoYes, and many people do. Hence this comic: https://xkcd.com/1129/ https://xkcd.com/1129/ (the first three digits being the area code). Edit: keeping my number when I moved also made it really easy to filter out these phone calls. Any number calling me from my old area code that I don't recognize is either a spammer or a wrong number. Any number calling me from my new area code is probably legitimate.
- dalore 9y agoWell with BT which is the national provider in the UK you can't keep your landline number when you move if you are moving to another exchange (which is most likely).