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Over here in Belgium telcos will reuse mobile telephone numbers if the client leaves without transfering the number to a new service. This results in people ge
by PeterStuer 2y ago
Over here in Belgium telcos will reuse mobile telephone numbers if the client leaves without transfering the number to a new service.
This results in people getting a new mobile subscription with a number that can not be used to create a new Google account (this number has been used too many times), or e.g. get the Whatsapp account from the previous owner (as you recover the account by a text to the number)
- bsimpson 2y agoThis is a standard feature in the US too. Since the advent of cell phones and free long distance, people tend to keep a single number for longer, but there used to be a trope about getting wrong number calls for someone who had died and had his number recycled.