Having your own phone number is a must, even for school-age children. With the development of cellular communications and with its availability to the widest circles of the population, each person can even have several telephone numbers. But how do you buy a phone number?
Necessary
- - the passport;
- - money to buy a SIM card.
Instructions
Step 1
Check if you can purchase the number yourself. According to Russian laws, a SIM-card of a mobile operator, and, accordingly, a phone number can only be assigned to an adult. Therefore, parents should buy a room for children. The same person, to whose name the phone number is tied, must pay for the calls.
Step 2
Select the mobile operator from which you want to purchase the phone. The most profitable thing for you may be connecting to the same operator, whose services are used by your relatives and friends. Calls within the same subscriber network are often cheaper.
Step 3
Contact the office of the selected mobile operator or any mobile salon. Sometimes a SIM card with a cell number can even be purchased at a supermarket. Choose a tariff based on your needs. There are tariffs with lower prices for SMS, unlimited, with the ability to connect a "favorite number" - the phone of the person you call most often.
Step 4
Having chosen a tariff on your own or after consulting an employee, give him your passport to enter information about the owner of the number in the database. Pay the cost of the package of services. Usually, along with the SIM card and the number, you also receive a certain amount of money to the account for making the first calls. Often, you can choose the phone number that you like best from several suggested ones.
Step 5
Activate your number. Usually it is enough to call any phone. If you need any additional unlocking procedure, the employee of the communication salon will tell you what to do. After activation, you can freely use your number, as well as communicate it as a contact to your friends and acquaintances.
Step 6
You can also purchase the so-called "golden number" - a number with a beautiful combination of numbers. These can be repeating numbers that are easy to remember. Such a number can be purchased from a special organization, of which there are many, or from a private person using an Internet ad. A beautiful number will cost you much more than the usual one at the end of 2011, the cost of a gold number from a Moscow operator was about 30 thousand rubles.
