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Lynne23456
Investigator
Investigator

UPDATE - sorting this out via customer service messaging. Think my account has got a bit messed up - hence the issues.

Hi. I have an EE PAYG card in a spare phone for back up. To keep the card active I phone my other phone and hang up before the call is answered and vice versa. I did this last month without issue. However, this month I don't have enough credit to do it. There is no activity on my account for the past 30 days, any clues where my credit might have gone please? Regards Lynne23456

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Leanne_T
EE Community Support Team

Hi @Lynne23456 

Thanks for the update on your post.

Hope this is now sorted for you with our customer care team 🙂

Leanne.

Thanks Leanne. Semi sorted. A complaint has been raised, but happy to close this issue today.

Regards

Lynne

Leanne_T
EE Community Support Team

Thanks for letting me know @Lynne23456 

Hope this is sorted soon for you. 

Leanne. 

XRaySpeX
EE Community Star
EE Community Star

Hanging up before call is answered doesn't count as a call & is not charged. So it will not keep your SIM out of hibernation. Doing this for 6 months on the trot will result in hibernation as it turned out.

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To phone EE CS: Dial Freephone +44 800 079 8586 - Option 1 for Mobile Phone & Mobile Broadband or Option 2 for Home Broadband & Home Phone

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@XRaySpeX  Hi, thanks for your input. I was only following instruction from a call with an EE customer advisor many months ago to make a call and hang up before it was answered. However, I have now discovered that to prevent my account going into hibernation, not only do I have to make a call and connect every 90 days, but I also have to top up my account. This PAYG sim is purely for back up in the event my current provider doesn't have a signal, so it is there for emergencies. As I don't intend to sit with a huge credit on the account, I'm afraid that when this balance comes to an end, I will have to investigate what other providers have to offer.  

Apparently, I should also have received a text to warn me, my account was about to go into hibernation, which I never got. In anticipation of my account going into hibernation, EE withdrew my existing credit balance. As a token of my long customer service an amount was credited back to my account, but no compensation for any of the incovenience I incurred.

Your input is obviously valued. Thank you. 🙂

 

Thanks! You're welcome 🙂 ! Glad I could be of assistance & trust it is now sorted.

If you think I helped please feel free to hit the "Thumbs Up" button below.

To phone EE CS: Dial Freephone +44 800 079 8586 - Option 1 for Mobile Phone & Mobile Broadband or Option 2 for Home Broadband & Home Phone

ISPs: 1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up > 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB > 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB > 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU > 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU > 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC > 2014: EE 20 Meg WBC > 2020: EE 40 Meg FTTC > 2022:EE 80 Meg FTTC SoGEA > 2025 EE 150 Meg FTTP