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Picking your number

  • 11-06-2025 05:45PM
    #1
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,966 ✭✭✭✭


    If you want to get a new number, where can you have an input and select rather than just given the next random available number?

    I know you can sift through the shelf in tesco and read back of the packs. Can you do the same in An Post? (I'm looking for an 087 rather than an 089)

    I'm not asking about operators as once I've the number, I can move to whoever I want after a month on their plan.



Comments

  • #2
    NotShero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 916 ✭✭✭NotShero


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058416013/picking-your-number

    You could get a PAYG SIM in Vodafone or get Clear Mobile, but An Post should give you an 087 number too.

    AFAIK there is no option to pick the number you get, you can only choose the network, like below.

    083

    • Three

    085

    • eir
    • GoMo
    • Previously meteor

    086

    • o2 (Three)

    087

    • Vodafone
    • Clear
    • An Post

    089

    • 48 (Start with 2 or 4)
    • Tesco (Start with 2 or 4)
    • Lyca (Start with 9)
    • Virgin Media (Start with 60 or 61)
    • Sky


  • #3
    Ten Pin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Ten Pin


    You can see the number allocated before going to the checkout while ordering a VF PAYG SIM online.
    Not same as selecting an exact number but you can just exit the order process and start again in a new incognito tab (or different browser) and presumably be presented with a different number to accept or reject.
    AFAIK that's the closest there is to picking a number.



  • #4
    editorsean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭editorsean


    An Post have their SIMs behind the counter based on being in the queue one day behind someone ordering a new SIM. It may be worth asking in the post office if they can check the number on a few packs to let you decide.

    While not quite a number picker, when ordering a SIM with a new number on the Vodafone website, it shows the number before going through the check out (I censored the last few digits of the example here):

    Vodafone new number.png

    I only know of a landline VoIP provider that provides an actual number picker, i.e. Goldfish.



  • #5
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,966 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Thank you everyone, that's perfect. Was able to spend some time and keep emptying and readding to basket until I got a "nice" number.



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