topic Re: Kiosk SIM card to eSIM in SIM cards & Porting

Kiosk SIM card to eSIM

Scythianunborne — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:02:16 GMT

Hi,

A few years back, I bought an EE sim card at a kiosk at Heathrow. I've got the package it came in, except the sim card itself. Would I be able to use the information on the package to convert it into an eSim once I'm back in London, or even before that?

Re: Kiosk SIM card to eSIM

EssexBoyEE — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:05:00 GMT

No, no eSims avaible for PAYG.

If it's a few years old the Sim Number has probably expired by now if its not been used.

Re: Kiosk SIM card to eSIM

XRaySpeX — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:06:08 GMT

That would be a PAYG SIM, but EE don't do eSIMs on PAYG, only contract. Anyway even if you still had the SIM after a "few years" of idleness it would've been disabled.

Re: Kiosk SIM card to eSIM

Scythianunborne — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:40:03 GMT

To clarify, I got the sim in late August 2022. Still not sure if that's a bit too far.

Re: Kiosk SIM card to eSIM

bristolian — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:47:50 GMT

@Scythianunborne wrote:

To clarify, I got the sim in late August 2022. Still not sure if that's a bit too far.

EE PAYG SIMs are disabled after 6 months of non-chargeable use. You then have 3months grace before the number is irretrievably disconnected. Yours would have been disconnected around late May 2023.