{"id":37543,"date":"2017-08-04T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T09:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=37543"},"modified":"2017-08-04T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T09:34:50","slug":"1st-world-problems-tosspots-cancelled-my-phone-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/04\/1st-world-problems-tosspots-cancelled-my-phone-number\/","title":{"rendered":"1st world problems: tosspots cancelled my phone number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For unimportant reasons, I needed to get a text message on my UK mobile number. I&#8217;ve not used that number in a Very Long Time. Apparently, the VLT was offensive to EE because they went ahead and cancelled it.<\/p>\n<p>After talking with a very nice but essentially useless lady from EE customer service, apparently this is a thing that everybody does. A bit of internet digging led me to this table:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/network-timeouts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37544\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/04\/1st-world-problems-tosspots-cancelled-my-phone-number\/network-timeouts\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/network-timeouts.png\" data-orig-size=\"821,819\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"network-timeouts\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/network-timeouts-600x600.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/network-timeouts-600x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-37544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/network-timeouts-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/network-timeouts-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/network-timeouts-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/network-timeouts-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/network-timeouts.png 821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PAYG Credit Expiry<\/strong>: When your Pay As You Go credit expires, you\u2019ll no longer be able to use it or recover it. On most mainstream mobile networks, your credit will never expire providing your SIM card remains active. However, on some smaller mobile networks, your credit can expire just 90 days after top-up.<br \/>\n<strong>SIM Card Cancellation<\/strong>: When your SIM card is cancelled by the network, you\u2019ll lose coverage on your phone with an error message like \u201cInactive SIM\u201d or \u201cSIM card registration failed\u201d. Your SIM card will be cancelled automatically if you haven\u2019t used it for a certain amount of time.<br \/>\n<strong>Phone Number Deleted<\/strong>: In some cases, your phone number will remain even if your SIM card has already been cancelled. This means you\u2019ll be able to restore service on the phone number and you\u2019ll be able to use a PAC Code to transfer the number to phone another network. If a phone number has been deleted by your mobile network, it\u2019ll no longer be possible to recover it or transfer it to another network.<\/p>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/kenstechtips.com\/index.php\/payg-inactivity-account-termination-and-credit-expiry<\/p>\n<p>So, in the end, I ordered an O2 sim card that is as plain as plain can be &#8211; which is just what I want. I just need to remember to use it at least twice a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For unimportant reasons, I needed to get a text message on my UK mobile number. I&#8217;ve not used that number in a Very Long Time. Apparently, the VLT was offensive to EE because they went ahead and cancelled it. After talking with a very nice but essentially useless lady from EE customer service, apparently this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/04\/1st-world-problems-tosspots-cancelled-my-phone-number\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;1st world problems: tosspots cancelled my phone number&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,35],"class_list":["post-37543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dealing-with-idiots","tag-ducks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-9Lx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37545,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37543\/revisions\/37545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}