B&YOU: carte prépayée

[NFH]

Motel75 - it has always displayed an expiry date that is much longer than 365 days since the last chargeable usage. Therefore don't expect it to update each time you use it. They clearly said "vous conserverez votre ligne, vos recharges sans durée de validité".

[Motel75]

Originally Posted by NFH

Motel75 - it has always displayed an expiry date that is much longer than 365 days since the last chargeable usage. Therefore don't expect it to update each time you use it. They clearly said "vous conserverez votre ligne, vos recharges sans durée de validité".

Unfortunately, I just received an SMS warning me that my line would expire in one month - on the date listed on the website.

"Info 630. Votre ligne est valable jusq'au 19/10/2015. Rechargez en appelant le 630 (gratuit) pour conserver votre numéro!"

There's a discussion (in French) here: http://forum.lesmobiles.com/simyo/fi...10230-100.html

[NFH]

I don't believe there's any permanent problem. Credit on one of my B&You SIM cards disappeared in December 2014 well before the change from Simyo to Bouygues. It was just before a trip to France, so I had to top up by €10. When I complained, they reinstated my original credit, plus my €10 top-up plus a €2 goodwill credit. There is obviously some expiry bug, but they correct it without a fuss

[Motel75]

There isn't. A few days after my last post, the expiration date changed to 2018 all by itself.

[woody1]

I'll be in France for 25 days in May and I'm trying to figure out how to get the best deal for this period. I have the old B&YOU/Simyo card which is now the Bouygues card. I'm mostly interested in data and I don't expect to make many telephone calls. I will probably need about 2Gb of data for the entire period.

Does anybody have any suggestions on which offer to take?

[willemijns]

Originally Posted by woody1

I'll be in France for 25 days in May and I'm trying to figure out how to get the best deal for this period. I have the old B&YOU/Simyo card which is now the Bouygues card. I'm mostly interested in data and I don't expect to make many telephone calls. I will probably need about 2Gb of data for the entire period.

Does anybody have any suggestions on which offer to take?

off-topic here, create a new subject and i will answer u

[willemijns]

Originally Posted by Motel75

There isn't. A few days after my last post, the expiration date changed to 2018 all by itself.

Since the beginning, expiration dates are false.... one PAID sms, call or several kilobytes of data and you can keep forever your card....

[Motel75]

Thanks for that, willemijns. Still, 5 euros a year is better than any other French offer I'm aware of. It's possible that being the only French offer with generous expiration, they got a large share of "parked" numbers that weren't getting much use.

[willemijns]

FYI: On 14th june, roaming will be forbidden with this offer (and the day after, the EU roaming law will apply we know we know we know )

they push out every prepaid cards / PAYG customers who want to use their SIM card outside France => pay a plan or leave us buddy !

1) You can still call outside France of course

2) This card still works if it stay in France

[woody1]

Originally Posted by willemijns

FYI: On 14th june, roaming will be forbidden with this offer (and the day after, the EU roaming law will apply we know we know we know )

they push out every prepaid cards / PAYG customers who want to use their SIM card outside France => pay a plan or leave us buddy !

1) You can still call outside France of course

2) This card still works if it stay in France

Thanks for this information! I live in the US and only use this card when I visit France occasionally. I guess that this new policy means that I won't be able to use my SIM card in the US to add a rechargement, send a text, etc. If I can't use the card in the US, then I will have no way to extend my expiration date. Do you have any ideas about a way to extend the expiration date if I'm not in France?