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From: Andy Pandy on 28 Jun 2010 13:34 "Steve Terry" <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote in message news:i0al2g$cs2$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > "tony sayer" <tony(a)bancom.co.uk> wrote in message > news:57lNQqHE8EKMFwfM(a)bancom.co.uk... >> In article <i08h6c$3n0$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Steve Terry >> <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> scribeth thus >>>"Woody" <harrogate3(a)ntlworld.spam.com> wrote in message >>>news:5lOVn.60373$aS3.2904(a)hurricane... >>>> Voda have cut off my backup PAYG mobile saying I have not used it >>>> in nine >>>> months - but I know I have used it this year. They insist that I >>>> have lost >>>> both the credit (about �8) and the number and they cannot be >>>> recovered. >>>> However this happened once before - a decade or more ago - with >>>> my wife's >>>> phone (she doesn't use it either!) and I got both back without >>>> problem. >>>> >>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to get one - or preferably >>>> both - back? >>>> Woody >>>> >>>Welcome to the club of Voda PAYG timeout victims. >>>If you need to use the Voda network on PAYG get an Asda Mobile sim >>> >>>If you have the use of other networks in your area use them instead >>>Steve Terry >> >> Are any other nets any better?.. >> Tony Sayer >> >> > Voda PAYG have the shortest disuse timeout period, at one time only > 3 months although they now say they've put it back to 6 months. They suspend after 6 months but you don't lose the number & credit till 9 months. Compares pretty favourably to all those contracts, packs etc where you lose your credit after just 1 month!! Even if you *were* using it! > For low users they are not to be trusted. Well we have 3 low-use PAYG Vodafone SIMs and have never had a problem, and they've been inactive for pretty close to the 6 month limit. Once one of them went over the 6 months but we got it reactivated at a Vodafone shop. > Virgin mobile probably still have the longest, although they can now > timeout a PAYG sim for disuse after 6 months i've not known them to. > Also if you add Direct Debit to your Virgin Sim turning it into a > zero per month contract, it'll have no timeout. Although that defeats one of the advantages of PAYG, ie that if someone nicks your phone they can't run up a huge bill. > Although for a Zero per month contract i prefer Three Zero > with free Skype access, free voicemail and Orange 2g roaming. IIRC sykpe is only free in the UK. Could cost a fortune if you used it abroad... -- Andy |