Truphone SIM replacement heads up!

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Originally Posted by davidtheprof

Truphone's 'upgrade' seems to involve a loss of key functionality.....
"If you have additional mobile numbers associated with your account and you would like to keep these you need to enable auto-renew within your Truphone account or you will lose the number permanently.

Not something I envision using, but thanks for the warning.

Originally Posted by davidtheprof

For me, an important feature was the ability to switch on a UK (or Australian) number for just a month when I travel for $8, and then turn off auto-renew again. Now we'll lose the UK number, unless we pay EVERY month. I suppose we can live with a different number each time we travel, if that is possible, but it makes Piranha look more enticing.

So you kept getting the same phone number every time you turned it back on? Was this something they documented or was that just he the way things worked? Perhaps they need to conserve their numbers more than in the past.............or just wanted to enhance revenue per month.