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£35.70 to change a number are you having a laugh

Spusu and Three let you pick your number when you join them. And Carphone Warehouse still let you pick your number if you are signing up to Vodafone through them instore I believe.

An EE store will also allow this to a more limited extent. The SIM cards are pre-numbered but most staff would be happy enough to bring out a handful of SIMs and let you pick which number you like out of that selection.

EE and O2 both offer gold and platinum numbers on request too if you call and ask for such a thing. But both will charge you a lot of money to get such a thing from them.

I don’t recall Ikea’s network giving you a choice of number but it’s so long ago now I’ve probably just forgotten. Only other past brand I can think of that let you pick your number off the top of my head was Shebang Mobile. The website would throw a huge table of numbers in your face with at least 20 pages to flick through and pick whichever one you liked the look of.
I remember picking my number in Phones4U on Vodafone. It's a gold number but the platinum's were are frozen out.

Vodafone still privately sell gold numbers on their user forum.
 
I remember picking my number in Phones4U on Vodafone. It's a gold number but the platinum's were are frozen out.

Vodafone still privately sell gold numbers on their user forum.
EE sell gold numbers which you can get by calling customer support.

You can choose up the last 6 digits of your number and the cost is between £500 and £1000.
 
Nowadays, only 1p Mobile seem to have this function, and I don't really like their 07396 code, there's something a bit 'off' about 073 to me, it doesn't feel like a proper mobile number.
I'm an 073 personal and 074 work
 
I'm an 073 personal and 074 work
073 here too.

Talking about weird number blocks, I find the 070 and 076 number blocks to be weird for me (although I think the reasons are obvious with 070 being for pagers iirc and 076 being Channel Islands mostly).
 
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077, 075, 079 & 073 here 😂

There’s a few more..!
 
I remember picking my number in Phones4U on Vodafone. It's a gold number but the platinum's were are frozen out.

Vodafone still privately sell gold numbers on their user forum.

Vodafone’s numbers are expensive and not very good, you’re better off looking on eBay. Below was the list in 2023.

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EE also sell gold numbers via customer service, they range from £500 to £1000.
 
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WARNING about porting by using a third party free/low cost SIM

I got a free Three SIM as we want to juggle the RWG bundles on our house mobile and wife's mobile soon. The last eight digits are symmetrical with an identical block of four digits in the middle i.e. 07A-BC-DD-DD-CB. So easy to remember. I'll take that.

I supplied the PAC and spent two hours Tuesday evening sorting out main contacts who have that number, ported yesterday, and another couple of hours doing remaining contacts. That's £9/hour well below minimum wage using the OP's price from EE. Still the number must be worth a few hundred. All sorted by 3:30pm yesterday. "Yay" for RWG support.🏆
 
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