Depends on how you see it. Some companies do not charge a yearly fee.
Also If you have a card from a supplier that previously did not charge you anything you could now be faced by having to pay a yearly fee. Although it is mentioned in the faqs, there are lots of people that don't read faqs.
A yearly fee should be mentioned clearly on the page where you list all your info and also on your adoptsim as it is part of the costs !. Putting it under faqs is a bit playing hide and seek like airlines adding cost for whatever after you almost finalized your booking.
So to reactivate a sim you have to pay 10 tot 13 pounds plus 12 pounds per year fixed cost.
Than my next question would be for existing geosim customers: I asume that the month of inactive service are added to the year. Meaning When I bought a sim in july 2007 the yearly fee is not due july 2008 but more like october 2008 ?
Or like easyroam said:
Every distributor/reseller will now be charging a annual free around £12 per year.
or they could offer no annual fee to people who have purchased credit within 12 months.
Which reseller is offering this. When you buy a x amount of credit the yearly fee is waived ?
Also easyroam, you really have to update your site, because at the moment you are misinforming your customers, unless you are not charging this 12 pounds.
The faq at
www.easyroam.co.uk states the following:
Does the /credit expire?
Neither the sim card nor the credit expires. However, if you do not use the travel sim card for 12 months, we will de-activate the card. Should you wish to use your sim card again; we will re-activate it, which may incur a small re-activation fee.