Phone number 6666666 sold for $2.75 mn

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 $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 $480,000, (Qatar Riyal 1.75 million).

Although the auction took place over a year ago, the record will appear in the 2009 edition of the Guinness World Records book, to be published worldwide next week, reported Qatar daily The Peninsula.

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