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Gadget

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Jul 8, 2003, 7:55:06 AM7/8/03
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Hi,

The way it looks now, I will be visiting London quite often over the
coming years. Because making local calls with my Vodafone Netherlands
subscription are insanely expensive, I'm considering buying a
pay-as-you-go card for the UK.

In the Netherlands, it is quite common for pay-as-you-go plans to at
least top-up your card once every year. If you don't, the card becomes
invalid and the phonenumber cannot be re-activated. I would like to
prevent this from happening to my card in the UK, so I'm looking for a
pay-as-you-go card that doesnt have a mandatory anual top-up.

Could anyone help me figure out which card to get?

Thanks,
Rob

Dan

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Jul 8, 2003, 8:34:09 AM7/8/03
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Gadget wrote:
> In the Netherlands, it is quite common for pay-as-you-go plans to at
> least top-up your card once every year. If you don't, the card becomes
> invalid and the phonenumber cannot be re-activated. I would like to
> prevent this from happening to my card in the UK, so I'm looking for a
> pay-as-you-go card that doesnt have a mandatory anual top-up.
>
> Could anyone help me figure out which card to get?

PAYG cards in the UK need you to make a call/send a text message at
least once every six months. If you don't they will generally reactivate
it for you if you ask nicely (if they bothered to deactivate it in the
first place).

Chris

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Jul 8, 2003, 9:05:20 AM7/8/03
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"Dan" wrote...

On O2, receiving a call is also acceptable. So activate voicemail and
keep it active from outside the UK by calling it once in a while.


Matt S

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Jul 8, 2003, 9:43:59 AM7/8/03
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"Gadget" <sp...@spirale.demon.nl> wrote in message
news:3ba858d2.03070...@posting.google.com...

> In the Netherlands, it is quite common for pay-as-you-go plans to at
> least top-up your card once every year. If you don't, the card becomes
> invalid and the phonenumber cannot be re-activated. I would like to
> prevent this from happening to my card in the UK, so I'm looking for a
> pay-as-you-go card that doesnt have a mandatory anual top-up.
>
> Could anyone help me figure out which card to get?

Virtually no UK PAYG Sim card (ignoring a variety of O2 called O2 online)
require a minimum top up every year etc. They do, however, require you to
keep the card active and generally speaking making or receiving a call at
least once every six months will be enough to keep it active indefinitely.
Whilst this may seem like a hassle, O2, Voda and Orange Sim cards will roam
in Holland and so you can call it whilst at home just to keep it alive. You
can also do this with T-mobile Sim cards but no sane person would ever buy
one of these (FAR too expensive to use). Virgin Sim cards won't roam but are
very competitively priced (both the Sim cards and call rates) and it took
them over two years to disconnect an old, inactive sim card I had.


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