Article: Phone number sold at USD 2.75 million enters Guinness book.

Phone number sold at USD 2.75 million enters Guinness book

Dubai, Sept 19 (PTI) The sale of world's most expensive mobile phone number has earned a Qatar telecom company a place in the new edition of Guinness Book of World Records.

The phone number 6666666 of Qtel, which was sold for USD 2.75 million (Qatar Riyal 10 million) to an anonymous buyer in an auction at a charity event last year, will appear in the 2009 edition of the book, it was announced.

The previous record price for a phone number was made in China where the number 8888-8888 sold for USD 480,000, (Qatar ...

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