What is the world's record for the longest amount of time that one person has had the same phone number?

Question

I have had the same phone number for aproximately 31 years. Is there a world's record for the longest time someone has had the same number?

Answer 1

Don't know the world record, but phone numbers were a bit different in the past. They were  a few letters followed by 4 or 5 digits. Some were shorter. My neighbor has had the same number for 38 years.!

Answer 2

my grandma had her number from when alex g. bell went door to door installing "voice" telegraphs until she died, she was born in the house she lived in her whole life, so i'm sure she was one of the longest residential customers with the same number and service address.. me on the other hand, am working on a record of how many diffrent numbers can someone have, or how short can someone keep a phone number.. everytime i visit relatives they have to delete 5-10 of my "old" numbers and replace them with new numbers... thanks to grandcentral hopefully they wont need to keep updating there phonebooks, and can finally get in touch with me