Phone Question

[FlyIgnite]

weird place to be asking this but im not wasting my time searching for an answer or making another forums account.

 

Recently my Dad has stopped paying for my phone bill and I have to wait another week or so before I can get it reactivated my self. How long can my phone be without service before I have to get a new phone number?

[HeyYou]

I think they don't reassign the phone number for like six months, though, that is likely to vary from carrier to carrier. The idea is, they don't want the folks that get the old number, to be getting calls for you for months...... What's funny is, I STILL get calls for the previous owner of my phone number 7 YEARS after she stopped using it...... Always love getting calls from collection agencies that don't believe me when I tell them I have no clue who they are looking for. Don't know her, never met her, don't know where she is now. Don't know where she went. Don't know any of her family. No, she doesn't live with me. No, I am most certainly not her..... (I am male, born that way, not a trans.) It's hilarious.