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I need a cheap (CHEAP) sim card only deal to keep a number alive, its on a contract until end of next month with O2 but I'm not wanting to keep paying the £20pm whilst it does nothing.
Unless there is an alternative to keeping a number alive?
Daughter has had same number for 15years and having recently moved to Australia wants to keep her number for some date in the distant future when she may or may not return.....yes muggins here gets to pay the bill hence the cheapest option available is required.
Go on Money Saving Expert and look at the cheap SIM only deals. The cheapest are for a limited time, but you can then flip to a cheap one with a different provider. It will keep you busy flipping every 3/6 months, but that is the cheapest way.
I have a giffgaff sim that I keep to put in a 4g modem if our broadband goes down. I put £10 on it to start and just have to send an SMS (not an RCS) from it every 6 months.
PAYG SIM, and as above send a chargable txt every <6 months .
I just had to get a SIM for mums rarely used mobile. Tesco PAYG which have recurring bundles, but they can be switched off via top-up system, leaving a bit of call credit for the twice yearly "keep me registered" call or text.
Giffgaff SIM as above and occasionally send a text from it. If you ask someone for referral link your £10 initial credit purchase becomes £20. If you daughter comes home for a holiday she can just buy a month calls and data package from any credit still on it.
I'm not sure how this plays out logically - if you retain the number on some sim in a devise that isn't being used then anyone who calls it (the people who have your daughters number and that she wants to retain the number for their benefit)... will get no answer if they call and no reply if they text. In time they'll either presume she's blanking them or that the number isn't in use. Either way the phones not going to be ringing off the hook with calls from them when she gets back.
These are all going to be people that she's not in regular contact with anyway - as they won't know that she's moved abroad and are presumably people she also wouldn't notify of her return either.
Go for a payg sim as above and she can take it with her! Turn off mobile data, don’t answer any calls, keep it charged. She can read any messages she gets for free, use it while on WiFi to tell folk her new number.
She can still send a text every few months herself - £10 will last years.
and it’s her problem not yours!
Thanks all, lots of useful options there.
I'm not sure how this plays out logically - if you retain the number on some sim in a devise that isn't being used then anyone who calls it (the people who have your daughters number and that she wants to retain the number for their benefit)... will get no answer if they call and no reply if they text. In time they'll either presume she's blanking them or that the number isn't in use. Either way the phones not going to be ringing off the hook with calls from them when she gets back.
These are all going to be people that she's not in regular contact with anyway - as they won't know that she's moved abroad and are presumably people she also wouldn't notify of her return either.
This. What does keeping her number achieve? She'll have a new number when she moves, if and when she returns she'll have to notify her friends of the change again and it's as easy to go "here's my new new number" and "here's my new old number." No?
Assuming daughter is an adult. Tell her to install an Esim on her Aussie phone and transfer the number she wants to keep to it. then she can swap over to it at any point she wants.
O2 even do a £5 per month tarrif if for some reason she wants to stay with them.