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Johnnie F.

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Prepaid phone cards & their validity
« on: December 06, 2010, 05:41:17 PM »
Just read on another forum about somebody wondering that his phone number was given to somebody else after he hadn't used his mobile phone for a month and to my guess his account had expired. That's the disadvantage of prepaid SIM cards like "One-2-Call". If you don't keep uploading money the moment will come when it expires. For a certain upload like 250 THB you get about one more month of validity. Now I don't use my mobile phone as much to make calls for 250 THB a month. So I kept accumulating a lot of credit on that account. But if I let the validity expire that credit will expire as well.

So what can I do? I dial *500*9# on my One-2-Call. Then I get an SMS that the operation was a success. What success? They withdrew 30 THB from my credit, extended my account's validity (expiry date) for one month and I can make 30 minutes calls within the next five days without being charged. I can monitor my account balance and validity (expiry date) by ordering an SMS by dialing *121#.
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Re: Prepaid phone cards & their validity
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2010, 06:29:04 PM »
Just transfer your credit to someone who uses their phone a lot, I dumped my mobile a couple of years ago as I was spending like 3 hours perday on it, got a new one last year, which I generally don't answer, my last mobile was normal monthly billing, the new one is pre paid so I accumalate loads of credit, just transfer the credit to my girlfriend.
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Re: Prepaid phone cards & their validity
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2010, 07:59:05 PM »
I see dialing *500*9# as means to extend the validity without uploading new money. But you can only get that extended to a year in advance. If you keep doing you'll get just 30 mins call time for your 30 THB.
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Re: Prepaid phone cards & their validity
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2010, 09:13:13 PM »
You can also go to an office for the company you have the phone service with and sing up for one of their promotions. I was buying time every month to keep my # alive until a nice gal at the phone desk at the mall told me to do this. Now I just have to remember to sing up for whatever promotion that is running at the time my old one expires to keep the number for another year. And there is no benefit or added expense to this other than being to keep the # without having to top up the phone time every month.
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