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Re: number sell ?
It was a sensible question. Nobody legally owns their own car reg number either, but people do still sell transfers to each other for £10,000s.
DVLA now automatically keep back any interesting reg plates that may have a value and auction them (money for nothing really).
I'd bet that Virgin won't randomly hand this out to the next customer. They'll probably sell it to some phone number broker. That number does have some value, even if it's just £100 or so.
There may be ways to do this yourself - worth some googling for sure, before giving it back to Virgin for nothing. If Virgin can transfer the number to another telco (I believe they can, e.g. if you switch to BT) then you might be onto something.
I'd find a company that sells premium catchy numbers to businesses and ring them up. You might be seeing your old number on the side of taxis in the future.
Good luck, let us know if you get anywhere.
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