Beastly number auctioned for charity
The world’s most expensive phone number was auctioned for charity yesterday in Qatar.
The number, 666 6666, sold for 10m Qatari riyals or ?Ǭ£1.5m.
The previous record holder was Chinese number 8888 8888, which sold for ?Ǭ£270,000. The Cantonese word for eight sounds very similar to the word for rich. It was bought by Sichuan Airlines.
The auction started at a million riyals and interest quickly narrowed from eight bidders to just two, according to Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA).
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