Imagine not being able to live without your smartphone—a pretty standard scenario today, right? Suppose you have just acquired the latest model, but what if it is not a lucky number? Perhaps it seems ...

Chinese consumers are accusing the country’s mobile operators of charging sky-high fees and trying to tie them into interminable contracts in exchange for telephone numbers ending in “lucky” digits, ...

A Beijing man has paid $215,000 for the ultimate in lucky cell phone numbers — 133-3333-3333. The phone number was sold this week at an auction in the Chinese capital, newspapers reported Saturday.

Are you going to buy another man's phone number for thousands of dollars? If you're Chinese, you might be. In China, a man gets paid with exactly $325,000 for having the 'lucky' phone number. However, ...

Although many of us did not choose our own phone number, we’ve grown attached to them. The 11 digits may seem generic or random, but they hold a special meaning to us, and can even be a status symbol ...

TOKYO, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Japanese police say a businessman and a man with reputed gang ties used fraud to acquire a "lucky" cell phone number with the same digit eight times. Shingo Nakao, owner of a ...

Although many of us did not choose our own phone number, we’ve grown attached to them. Play to win N100 million cash in MTN's Lucky Number promo The 11 digits may seem generic or random, but they hold ...