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11:42 pm
October 15, 2008
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My Speakout airtime and account is expiring today. What happens next? Will I be able to top-up later on or will my sim card be de-activated now?
I don't use it so I don't want to top-up but I want to keep it in case I need it in the future. How long can I keep the sim card for before it becomes completely dead and unable to reactivate?
12:20 am
April 23, 2009
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http://speakout7eleven.ca/page...../index.php
In paragraph 4 it says "When your account expires, you have 45 days to refill your account before your phone number is cancelled."
It's still always good to confirm with Customer Service just to be sure they haven't changed the rules.
7:13 am
March 15, 2008
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If you don't top up before the expiry date you lose all airtime credits. You only need to spend $25 to top it up and extend the expiry date for a full year. So your ongoing cost of keeping a SO phone "alive" for use whenever you need it, is a mere $2/month. IMO that's a small price to pay for the availability of a cellphone 24x7x365 and, most importantly, in case of emergency.
2:19 am
October 15, 2008
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Yes, but I have a better plan with Rogers. It's costing me the same money and I get 1c evenings and weekends. And there is only 50c/month 911 fee.
No worries about losing my airtime. I only had 10c on it. The monthly 911 fees ate up all my airtime on the Speakout.
8:57 am
March 15, 2008
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You originally said, "I want to keep [SO phone/SIM] in case I need it in the future."
Short answer: Top it up with $25 once a year at an ongoing cost of ~$2/month, half of which is accumulating airtime.
BTW when you no longer need the phone you can sell it, along with the SIM and accumulated airtime (up to $13/year), and get more of your sunk costs back.
11:54 am
Goldhead said:
Yes, but I have a better plan with Rogers. It's costing me the same money and I get 1c evenings and weekends. And there is only 50c/month 911 fee.
No worries about losing my airtime. I only had 10c on it. The monthly 911 fees ate up all my airtime on the Speakout.
A better plan with Rogers?? They have something better than "$25 for full year of occasional cell-phone use"? What Rogers plan is that?
7:37 pm
August 2, 2009
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A better plan with Rogers?? They have something better than "$25 for full year of occasional cell-phone use"? What Rogers plan is that?
Roger's Plan is called 'pay $1 before 14days expires indefinately' how it works is you make pre-authorize payment plan on your rogers pay2go every 14 days before it expires.
Before you enroll, you first put in $20-50 depending on plan you want to do. Like 1cent evening/weekend. After the first month, put $1 which will expire in 14days. $20-50 will expire 30-90days or something.
This bogus method still works because Rogers don't care or still haven't caught in yet. So it would cost about $26/year for keeping Rogers pay2go with 1cent evening/weekend with 50cent 911. Better then Speakout but its still a bogus plan until funs over.
10:14 pm
I have checked out all of the Roger's Pay as You Go pages and cannot find what Goldhead said " the better plan with Rogers ". All I see is you have to top up $20 with the 1c evenings & weekends every month. That is $240 plus tax a year. " the better plan with Rogers " is not existed.
2:14 pm
October 15, 2008
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Exactly as peteryorkuca said, I use the $1 top-up every 14 days method. I was forced to do that b/c when my airtime with Rogers was about to expire I was still left with $60 airtime and I did not want to top-up with $100 for another year.
Unfortunately Rogers is better for emergency use b/c if you find yourself stranded somewhere without airtime you can always top-up with credit card, which is not possible with SpeakOut.
I don't like Rogers but this is the best option for me for now. I'm just patiently waiting for new providers to come in and offer more for less money .... (I try to be optimistic :)))
