May 24, 2006
Phone Number sells in Qatar for $ 2.8 million
According to The Register, via Smart Mobs, the world's most expensive phone number was auctioned for charity yesterday in Qatar.
The number, 666 6666, sold for £1.5m ($2.8m).
Why is the number 6 considered lucky? Click here to find out - and for all Apple fans, the first Apple Compute was sold for $666.66.
Related: - Numbers count:
-- A mobile phone number in Bahrain has been put on sale for $13,200, because it has an unusual number sequence. Abdullah al-Hammadi, who specialises in mobiles and car licence plates, told AFP news agency the number 9111119 was coveted by Bahrain's "in-crowd". "
-- In Switzerland, Orange is also selling "premium" numbers, but the cost is considerably less $250-$400.
-- A Chinese bidder who offered to pay 9 million yuan ($ 1.1 million) for a "lucky" mobile phone number. The number, 135 8585 8585, when prounounced in Chinese sounds like "let me be rich be rich be rich be rich". Numbers related to birthdays and lucky numbers generally sell between 100 yuan ($12.-) and 100,000 yuan ($12'000.-)
And chilling:
-- Killer numbers. Nigerians are panicking over rumours that it is possible for a GSM phone to kill people. "Local media reported that the stories claiming people have died after they received phone calls from certain numbers owned by the local GSM operator, Vmobile.
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