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Who owns your mobile phone number?

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  • 10-10-2012 7:42pm
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    BenMicheal
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭


    I'm sure this is a question that gets asked alot - but who owns your mobile number? You or the company who you have a mobile contract with?


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    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    Technically, probably comreg/the state. They're just assigned to an operator.


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    Walkman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭Walkman


    AFAIK its the network your currently on.


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    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    Got bored and checked, they are definitely a public resource and not owned by the operator and are administered ultimately by ComReg.

    From a ComReg document :

    8.1
    The rights of Authorised Persons to numbers/number blocks
    1 Numbers are a public resource to be administered for the common good, initially in the form of a primary allocation or reservation by ComReg;
    ....

    7 No operator shall be entitled to ownership of, or to any other interest in, any number or numbers allocated to that operator, or to any customer thereof.

    More: http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0435.pdf


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