Mobile phone expired validity

[richard]

What the F*** does the above mean?

I have a message on my phone saying 'Your balance is 211.02B and can only receive calls due to expired validity. Please top up before your number will be disabled on 04/04/2013 or press *500*9#

[Dannie Boy]

What the F*** does the above mean?

I have a message on my phone saying 'Your balance is 211.02B and can only receive calls due to expired validity. Please top up before your number will be disabled on 04/04/2013 or press *500*9#

It probably means that you can only receive calls and that if you don't top it up by the 4/4/13 your number will be disabled

I assume that when you previously topped up and would have received a message on the lines of "your new balance is xxx baht and valid until 4/3/13 and even though you still have valid credit, you have gone past the use by date. I know it's sounds crazy (and is crazy) but that seems to be the way it is here, even though you have credit.

[STEVE G]

It means exactly that Richard, they have an expiry date. If you bung in 50 bt of top-up, you'll have 261.02B of credit, if you don't you'll have a useless little sliver of plastic at the start of next month.

[richard]

Thanks, I guessed as much. Don't use the mobile much as now have a Galaxy.

So I ought to bung in 50bht and get it reactivated and use it to make calls and receive calls on my known number on my Galaxy.

Wish some punter would buy my Nokia N8 and take all this hassle off my hands

[GLCQuantum]

If you are with DTAC, the next time the expiry date is coming up just phone 1678 and they will whack another month or so on - no fuss.

[PeteC]

I thought I read somewhere, maybe on here, that a new law has changed all of that and as long as someone has money in the account it cannot expire? Pete

[hhinner]

If you are with DTAC, the next time the expiry date is coming up just phone 1678 and they will whack another month or so on - no fuss.

As GLCQ says if you're on DTAC Happy prepaid you can call 1678 to extend. Or do it yourself as shown below from DTAC website. However it looks like Richard is on 1-2-Call so this won't do him much good. Might be useful for others though

[brianks]

What is even more frustrating is that 50 baht top up gives you ONLY two more weeks of validity and 100 baht 4 weeks. I have to give my phone to my wife to use up the extra minutes all the time.

[bsdk1960]

I thought I read somewhere, maybe on here, that a new law has changed all of that and as long as someone has money in the account it cannot expire? Pete

pete there was a thread or something for a month ago maybee where they mention a huge fine to companies who still have expiring dates on their cards.

[HHTel]

I have the same problem with my mother who comes for 3 months every year. 100baht only gives around a month then you need to top up again etc etc. It means that when she leaves to go home, there are several hundred baht unused and only a few days validity.
Answer: Before the validity runs out, transfer the remaining balance to another phone as long as it's on the same network. i.e. 1-2-Call. If your Galaxy, Richard, is on the same network then transfer it to that!

[HHTel]

Sorry, should have said. On 1-2-Call the code is *140[green button] and follow the instructions. you can transfer up to 100 baht at a time and they charge 3 baht for each transfer.

[Lung Per]

Sorry, should have said. On 1-2-Call the code is *140[green button] and follow the instructions. you can transfer up to 100 baht at a time and they charge 3 baht for each transfer.

Cannot dial that number from Europe even when applying the Thai country code.

[richard]

Sorry, should have said. On 1-2-Call the code is *140[green button] and follow the instructions. you can transfer up to 100 baht at a time and they charge 3 baht for each transfer.

Thanks HHT. Works a treat

[MwD]

Just thought i'd give some info on why SIMs have validity periods on them...operators like DTAC have to pay license fees on all numbers active in their networks..with 25 million active subscribers in DTAC, license fees are substantial.

To minimise this, operators recycle numbers. With prepaid cards, and particularly in asia, SIMs are bought and discarded at high frequency..

[Nereus]

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Here is the old thread.