Originally Posted by dslrocks:
“Perhaps the number is snappy and easy to remember?
Or it might just be that the number will be familar with local people around the area?”
whch is fair enough, but you'll get a lot of annoyed customers calling thinking its the old takeaway if you run a completely different kind if business.
I thought the telecoms providers owned the numbers and allocated them to an account. If its a non-cable number, dont BT for example have a problem porting a number from 1 exchange to another, so if anyone did take over that number in a completely different part of town then the number couldnt be operated from a different exchange...
dodgy dealings trying to sell on a standard landline number