Charged from the day you order the sim?

boomish

Is it right you get charged the order your sim? I switched to a better Sim only deal on Virgin, but because I was with Virgin already I had to leave with my number to a Three temp sim, then go back to Virgin, this took a few days. When I just looked at my bill I got charged from the day after I ordered the sim, so basically paying for something I'm not using. I presume it was from when you activated it, so I left a week or so while I was swapping numbers. Hence I've paid double.
It's not much but I think the principle of being charged from the day you order isn't right, or is this normal?

twhitehousescat

yes same happened to me , sim had not even arrived and I had a email bill

Frozen_up_north

You should have been able to change contracts with the same network without changing SIMs, or switching away and back. I've done this a few times with Three and would expect other networks to do the same... it’s less admin for them if nothing else, also you aren’t without service for a few hours and there will be no overlap in billing.