Thread: 28.8 million baht collected from auction of 32 “beautiful” phone numbers

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) earned 28,844,999 baht from an auction of 32 “beautiful” mobile phone numbers on Sunday.

Altogether 168 “beautiful” phone numbers were put on public auction – the second this year – but only 32 numbers were auctioned off. The number which fetched the highest bidding price was 095-999-999 at 4.8 million baht followed by 095-666-6666 and 096-000-0000 which fetched three million baht each.

The phone numbers with six digits of the same number were auctioned off at a starting price of 500,000 baht with number 092-899-9999 fetching the highest bid at 1,004,999 baht.



No bidders offered bids for phone numbers which have nine digits of similar number whose starting bidding price was 20 million baht and six million baht for numbers which have eight digits of similar number.

After deduction of expenses incurred by the auction, revenue from the auction will be handed over by the NBTC to the Finance Ministry.

28.8 million baht collected from auction of 32 ?beautiful? phone numbers - Thai PBS English News

You can fool some of the people all the time.

The Asian fixation with, and superstition around numbers, and the feeling of face about having such a lucky phone number is really strange to Westerners.


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