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Bahrain hot for cool phone number
There is a huge market in the wealthy Gulf state for unusual mobile phone numbers and car license plates because of their value as status symbols, reports the BBC via AdMblog. "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". " Elsewhere: -- In Switzerland, Orange is also selling "premium" numbers, but the cost is considerably less $250-$400. [AdMblog] -- Lucky numbers are very big in China as well as bidding online for them. Last April, the Shanghai Daily wrote about a bidder who offered to pay 9 million yuan ($ 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.-) [Textually] |
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