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Keeping o2 sim card online active!!

marylee
marylee Posts: 497 Forumite
My son uses one of this, but will be going away for 6 months and will not be taking his phone with him. I have read in the small print if you do not top up with £10 every 90 days, the service will be discontinued. Can somebody please confirm whether this is correct? Thanks.

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  • RaihanT
    RaihanT Posts: 150 Forumite
    100 Posts
    marylee wrote:
    My son uses one of this, but will be going away for 6 months and will not be taking his phone with him. I have read in the small print if you do not top up with £10 every 90 days, the service will be discontinued. Can somebody please confirm whether this is correct? Thanks.

    it used to be in the past when these were 'genie' cards and if you did not top up, you could not receive or make phone calls. However, I havent topped up my sim for about 6 months now and it still works. The only think you wont get is your 300 texts per month free however these will begin again when you top up.
  • andy88_2
    andy88_2 Posts: 3,676 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I think you just have to make a call within 180 days, so if you use it once sometime in the middle it should be ok
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