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Before someone does this, consider one possible risk. People can easily remember vanity numbers. That is the risk. I did this when I worked in a wireless pro
by LinuxBender 4y ago
Before someone does this, consider one possible risk. People can easily remember vanity numbers. That is the risk.
I did this when I worked in a wireless provider and it was a mistake in my case. It was one of the factors that made me the go-to person for just about any problem and I was the default person to call for a myriad of issues. I was so happy to rid myself of that number. As a positive note this helped enforce a discipline in me to guide people to a ticketing system.
- PainfullyNormal 4y agoI'd settle for a number that wasn't previously used. I've had my current number for 8 years and the caller id still shows the previous owner. I still get all manner of calls for the previous owner too, everything from local politicians asking for money to old friends asking if he's in town and wants to hang out.
- nucleardog 4y agoThis is why I've hung onto my same number for... nearly 20 years now. Besides "looking" fake, the entire prefix was _just_ assigned when I got my number. No one's had it before me. I get next-to-zero spam calls, wrong numbers, calls for past owners, or anything else.