Living without a SIM card

Re:Living without a SIM card by jowsie on Sunday February 09, 2020 @10:11AM (#22282455)

I'm not sure how common it is, but in the UK I've known people who have been forced to use their 'free' SIM or risk having the number revoked and the SIM disabled.

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Re:Living without a SIM card by ddalex on Sunday February 09, 2020 @11:01AM (#22282690)

What do you mean? How were they forced to use a number they didn't want? Why would they care if a number they don't what get disabled?

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Re:Living without a SIM card by koolba on Sunday February 09, 2020 @11:04AM (#22282713)

> Why would they care if a number they don't what get disabled?

If you gave it as a security contact number to a financial institution you’d care if it was disabled.

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Re:Living without a SIM card by xorcist on Sunday February 09, 2020 @11:47AM (#22282952)

Especially since the number will generally be recycled and given to someone else ...

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Re:Living without a SIM card by funnybeam on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:24PM (#22292288)

Eventually. Old numbers are held out of use for, I think, five years before being reissued specifically to address security and privacy issues like this

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Re:Living without a SIM card by astura on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:32AM (#22290589)

When I had a prepaid phone you had to buy minutes once a year at minimum otherwise you lost your existing minutes and your number was disabled.

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