Keeping my number active

[Anonymous]

Hey everyone!

Just a quick question - I will be moving to a different EU country soon but I want to keep my UK mobile number active so would switching to the Simplicity NO ALLOWANCE tariff, topping up a few pounds and then sending a text to someone every 5 months do the trick?

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous and welcome to the community forum.

As long as you carry out some activity on your account such as making calls /texting and topping up within a 6 month period your account will remain alive.

So what you propose in your post is viable.

[Cleoriff]

Hi @Anonymous and welcome.

What you are suggesting works in practice for me. I have two phones, one on contract and the other on PAYG

I travel to Spain every 6-8 weeks and although my contract phone is the one I use most of the time, I keep my

PAYG number active by sending an occasional text to family members.:smileywink:

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hey everyone!

Just a quick question - I will be moving to a different EU country soon but I want to keep my UK mobile number active so would switching to the Simplicity NO ALLOWANCE tariff, topping up a few pounds and then sending a text to someone every 5 months do the trick?

Thanks in advance.

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You only have to make a chargeable call (or send a chargeable text) every 6 months and top up every 999 days to keep the sim active.

[Cleoriff]

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 top up every 999 days to keep the sim active.

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Blimey ..top up every 999 days? Never knew that one

[Anonymous]

Their was a lot Of discussion a short time ago @Cleoriff regarding this as their is nothing official on the O2 site.

The figures I believe were confirmed by Toby.

[Cleoriff]

Well...as I am heard to say frequently...'Every day is a school day'....