Anthony R. Gold wrote:
> What are Orange's requirements, if any, to maintain a PAYG number? Is
> there any minimum monthly spend or topup? I'm not asking about how to
> maintain any of their special offers for free or discount texting or calls
> to magic numbers, just how to maintain a rarely used spare phone number
> accounts in order to keep it active and available. A CS person told me I
> had to make one call at least every 6 months, but I can not find that in
> the T's and C's and it was not clear if that was a fact or a suggestion
> and whether say a free call to 453 qualified to keep the account alive.
>
> Tony
" 3.4. We will disconnect your phone if during the previous six months,
you have not Registered a new pay as you go Voucher or you have not made
chargeable calls from your phone or received incoming calls on your
phone. For the avoidance of doubt calls shall include but not be limited
to voice calls, data calls and text messaging. On disconnection your
mobile telephone number will be reassigned. On re-connection you will be
assigned a new mobile telephone number. Any remaining credit on your pay
as you go Voucher will be reinstated if you reconnect. You can reconnect
your phone without having credit on your pay as you go Voucher."
Clipped from <http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/terms#airtime_payg>.
Anthony R. Gold wrote:
> Many thanks for the verbatim text Alan but in one essential part it's
> unclear. My son is now abroad at college with his Orange PAYG SIM in a
> Nokia 8210 which can not roam in the local 850/1900MHz bands. Does anyone
> know whether I may simply add £5 in topup from the registered credit card
> within 6 months or must I do something different in order to qualify for
> that "Registered a new pay as you go Voucher" provision which will keep
> his account and number alive?
>
Topping up using my registered credit card has been working fine for me
for the last few years. We keep a couple of phones for use by visiting
friends and relatives, so sometimes they are not used for extended periods.
My own phone is a triband, so when I'm away, I can use the Orange SIM
every once in a while for texting, to keep it active.
On 2006-09-24 12:49:12 +0100, "Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> said:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:35:28 -0400, S Viemeister
> <firstname.lastname@which.net> wrote:
>
>> Topping up using my registered credit card has been working fine for me
>> for the last few years. We keep a couple of phones for use by visiting
>> friends and relatives, so sometimes they are not used for extended
>> periods.
>
> Great, that appears to settle the issue.
>
> Thanks to all for the kind and informed help I have received here.
>
Just to add this; I'm well aware of the 'chargeable' call requirement,
however, I've kept an Orange SIM with Out Here active for the past 4
years by calling 450 periodically - a free call. There's no credit on
the SIM, so I can't make any chargeable calls and I've no real need to
top it up so I don't see the point..
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Chris Boyd <chrisbboyd@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just to add this; I'm well aware of the 'chargeable' call
> requirement, however, I've kept an Orange SIM with Out Here active
> for the past 4 years by calling 450 periodically - a free call. There's
> no credit on
> the SIM, so I can't make any chargeable calls and I've no real need to
> top it up so I don't see the point..
>
> Just my 2 cents.
I have an phone with a PAYG SIM in it - which hasn't been used for a *very*
long time - well over 6 months.
Having seen this discussion, I turned it on yesterday to see whether it it
still works. It does, and the usual number shows up on my caller display
unit when I dial my home number on the PAYG phone.
My guess is that Orange reserves the right to re-allocate the number if a
chargeable event doesn't happen within the specified time, but doesn't
*automatically* do so.
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Cheers,
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:42:08 +0200, Alan Summerfield <ALANnosp@mUNI-HD.DE>
wrote:
>" 3.4. We will disconnect your phone if during the previous six months,
>you have not Registered a new pay as you go Voucher or you have not made
>chargeable calls from your phone or received incoming calls on your
>phone.
So incoming calls will reset it without any chargeable requirement then?
>Having seen this discussion, I turned it on yesterday to see whether it it
>still works. It does, and the usual number shows up on my caller display
>unit when I dial my home number on the PAYG phone.
In my experience, they stay live for between 10 months and 30 months
before being killed off. Most of our Orange PAYG sims have now
expired, but I consider Orange to be about the worst network of all so
I'm not bothered
In article <g6rhh2tdm3rijni7ifn64tfl1kf48fjamq@4ax.com>, hairydog@despammed.com writes
>On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:37:35 +0100, "Roger Mills"
><watt.tyler@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>>Having seen this discussion, I turned it on yesterday to see whether it it
>>still works. It does, and the usual number shows up on my caller display
>>unit when I dial my home number on the PAYG phone.
>
>In my experience, they stay live for between 10 months and 30 months
>before being killed off. Most of our Orange PAYG sims have now
>expired, but I consider Orange to be about the worst network of all so
>I'm not bothered
>
Blimey!, I can agree with U on that!....
--
Tony Sayer
<hairydog@despammed.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:37:35 +0100, "Roger Mills"
> <watt.tyler@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>>Having seen this discussion, I turned it on yesterday to see whether it it
>>still works. It does, and the usual number shows up on my caller display
>>unit when I dial my home number on the PAYG phone.
>
> In my experience, they stay live for between 10 months and 30 months
> before being killed off. Most of our Orange PAYG sims have now
> expired, but I consider Orange to be about the worst network of all so
> I'm not bothered
> Iain
>
Not by a long way, recent Vodafone PAYT Sims time out after only
90days of disuse!
and if you dont call Voda CS to a top up,
(from another phone cos you can't call them)
by 6 months they will totally kill the sim.
<hairydog@despammed.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:42:17 GMT, "Steve Terry" <g4wwk@tesco.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Not by a long way, recent Vodafone PAYT Sims time out after only
>>90days of disuse!
>
> I was talking about Orange PAYG sims. What has Voda got to do with
> that?
> Iain
>
That Voda are worse
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