Birdie Mobile Number Assignment - Number completely used?

[chamomiIe]

Turns out Birdie gives out recycled numbers. Guy who previously owned my number signed up for basically everything - Carousell, HKTV, Octopus card, whatever.

It's been a pain going back and forth with customer support for various services trying to get this number disconnected from a dated account.

Additionally, I keep getting random spam calls and "#Antbank" texts at minimum twice a day.

According to Birdie, I can request a new number at the start of the cycle but there's no guarantee I wouldn't run into similar issues. Any advice here? Is my experience common? I'm trying to figure out the probability of getting a FRESHER number if I go through with it.

[shri]

If you are on an Android phone you can block messages and calls quite easily and report them as spam.

No clue how you could be guaranteed to get a clean number .. just saying you can quite easily block spam calls and texts

[Anahan]

It sounds like you just got unlucky with that number. I'd skip the aggravation and get a new number. I don't think your particular experience is super common

[aw451]

I also had this problem but luckily it was before "phone number as identity" was common. I kept receiving phone calls from Thai people and my own profile pic was a Thai lady on some services. I still get random Thai people as friend suggestions on Facebook.