Comments on: What is classed as inactivity on a pay as you go (UK)?

By: Ricky Chotai

Ricky Chotai — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:06:55 +0000

For those of you still wondering, one of the better operators seems to be family mobile! Response is below!

Hi Mr Chotai
Your account stay open for 3 months, after that it will just get soft blocked, all you will need to do is call us up and we will unblock it, the account never gets canceled for any customer, inbound calls are recomended as activity on the account.
Kind Regards
Family Mobile Customer Care team

By: Ricky Chotai

Ricky Chotai — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:06:55 +0000

By: Ricky Chotai

Ricky Chotai — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:06:55 +0000

By: ddddddddd

ddddddddd — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:18:06 +0000

you need to make an outgoing CHARGEBALE CAL ONCE EVERY THREE TO SIX MONTHS

By: Mobile Zilla

Mobile Zilla — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:12:18 +0000

different companies have different rules and it is pretty much down to them.

This thing is well covered in T&Cs on their website regarding service.

By: nacho

nacho — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:09:47 +0000

This is what I've heard. I do have a T-Mobile SIM that is still active, it has 5 quid left from last top-up in summer 2006. It has not received calls/sms as it is out of a handset. Before that top-up, the SIM was out of credit and unused for over a year

By: edcave

edcave — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:09:34 +0000

Im pretty sure on newer pay as you go sims you need to make a call or send a text every 90 days to keep the sim active.

By: DanLane

DanLane — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:41:48 +0000

The SMS gateway I use for my ping.fm and Livejournal services uses an Orange PAYG SIM that accepts text messages as a form of activity. It's a very old account though so the Ts & Cs on the newer cards may differ

it's had less than Â£1 worth of credit for at least 6 years now and hasn't made a call or sent an SMS in that time.

For more information on my ping.fm SMS gateway see: http://dan-lane.livejournal.com/613605.html
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