Settings - phone - my number doesn't show up

My phone number doesn't show up in phone settings?
and on other iPhones it works.
Is there something to turn it on?

I have no idea what that means, unless you're talking about synch with iTunes, and that's not something we have done or will do. I bought these as presents because we can't keep our business cells on over the weekend or in the evenings without customers, reps and various suppliers calling us repeatedly. These iphones are for our use only and the numbers will NEVER be given to anyone else, ever.
These are stock, new iPhones, slated for Christmas stockings, and they will probably never have email on them, never surf the net, and the only contacts will be our two numbers. They are strictly set up so she & I can finally talk & text each other, bypassing our corporate phones which do not allow texting.
I had the Apple Store set these up, and neither phone knows what it's number is. How does this happen? Even the worst free cell phones know what their numbers are!

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