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Barnetbear

kenr wrote: »

Wonder if it will work on mine, I topped up when I first bought the phone (about 3 years ago! £10 topup and still got £7 of it ;-))

You must have been making calls every at least every 3 to 6 months though? Because many telephone firms deactivate SIMs that are not used to make a call after 90-180 days or so. Some of them will not restore the SIM once deactivated and you lose whatever credit was on there. Happened to me with a SIM from one of the smaller firms specialising in overseas calls.

cazkins

Thanks OP! I've been a Tesco Mobile customer for a few years and top up fairly regularly, but didn't hear anything about this until I read your post. Sent the text and got the free £5 within 2 minutes! Thanks again, muchos appreciated.

wirehair

Thanks so much , was running very Low , both texts were sent less than a min after I sent mine.:j Top up been applied .

hollyh

Thanks for this. I got the confirmation text back and the credit on almost instantly. :j I was down to my last 9p credit too and hate having to top up so this came at the right time.:D

kenr

Barnetbear wrote: »

You must have been making calls every at least every 3 to 6 months though? Because many telephone firms deactivate SIMs that are not used to make a call after 90-180 days or so. Some of them will not restore the SIM once deactivated and you lose whatever credit was on there. Happened to me with a SIM from one of the smaller firms specialising in overseas calls.

Nope I switch it on occasionally, but haven't made any calls this year, I do still get sms's so the number is still valid (Tesco CC sms's me reminders on this number).
My wife also has a Vodaphone which is also used as an emergency phone, no issue with the credit on it either.

kenr

Is it an "expiring credit"? Like the 3x ones that expire after 30days or does it stay on does anybody know?

mongmoney

Thanks sooooo much, got mine straight away.

Barnetbear

kenr wrote: »

Nope I switch it on occasionally, but haven't made any calls this year, I do still get sms's so the number is still valid (Tesco CC sms's me reminders on this number).
My wife also has a Vodaphone which is also used as an emergency phone, no issue with the credit on it either.

That's interesting. I was deactivated by O2 but they cheerfully reinstated me and the credit when I phoned them. Other providers (not inc Vodafone) have cut me off permanently when I didn't make a call. I lost some really good memorable numbers thanks to that. I pleaded and wrote letters but they wouldn't budge.

ysoliman2010

Thanks for telling me this, I only had 78p and did'nt want to spend an extra £10 on top-up!

bexster1975

cheers thatguy.

Texted and got 2 texts straight away. Credit is now on phone ready to use.

Took 2 minutes!:j