Porting out again without top-up?

grumbler

I see.....

Herongull

flashnazia wrote: »

The temporary sim is only required if the ovivo one doesn't arrive on time before expiry of my Pac, for the purposes of avoiding paying three for another 30 days.
I want to stay with ovivo because (potentially-if I have understood it correctly) it's only £10 one off in return for monthly allowances that apply every month even if the user doesn't top up again.

Yes - this is correct, and the £10 sim comes with £10 credit, so the £10 isn't really a cost. You may not need to topup for a very long time cos the free monthly allowance is pretty generous, but the £10 credit is useful for using voicemail (which costs 6p per minute I think) or if you use the phone abroad.

System

Will 3 not let you move to their pay as you go and you could port out of there when suits?

Otherwise, sim zero still appears to be an active call plan although I don't think they sell it anymore as such, you could see if they will move you to that at the end of the 30 days, if needed.

flashnazia

But will they let me port out again without topping up?

That is my main concern. I could move to any PAYG but the main need is to be able to port my number back out again without having to top-up.

Jon_01

It used to be that if the sim/acc wasn't topped up it wasn't fully live on the network, and therefore they couldn't generate a pac for it.

I have no idea if that's still the case, but it used to cause all kinds of problems. . .

flashnazia

Jon_01 wrote: »

It used to be that if the sim/acc wasn't topped up it wasn't fully live on the network, and therefore they couldn't generate a pac for it.

I have no idea if that's still the case, but it used to cause all kinds of problems. . .

That makes sense.

So my next question...

Which network has the cheapest top up?

geraint83

When I needed to do something similar last month, I used GiffGaff and topped up with just £5 - I got minutes and texts, but no data. But that was ok since it was only for 2 - 3days.

geraint83

By the way, my GiffGaff SIM came 2-3 working days after ordering it on their website

grumbler

flashnazia wrote: »

So my next question...

Which network has the cheapest top up?

It's exactly what the thread that I posted a link to in the post #2 was about.

Oli.s

My understanding is that they can't charge you for another 30 days, they can only charge you up to the point your number is removed from them to your new network.

Say if you move the number 5 days into the 30, you'll just be charged for 5 days.

That was certainly the case with orange.