Maintaining SIM card
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Maintaining SIM card
Hello all,
Am gone now and looking to keep a certain SIM/ phone number. One is cellcard and one is Smart. Does anyone know how often you have to add money to keep it active? Can you just add credit using something like ABA or their mobile app ?
Thanks for help.
Am gone now and looking to keep a certain SIM/ phone number. One is cellcard and one is Smart. Does anyone know how often you have to add money to keep it active? Can you just add credit using something like ABA or their mobile app ?
Thanks for help.
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Re: Maintaining SIM card
I have a recurring payment on my ABA app, but sometimes it inexplicably fails. That could be a problem if you're offshore and don't have access to the app.
Theoretically you could have $1/week payment for a plan that costs $1/week, if only it reliably worked.
Or on Smart, change to Xtralong? https://www.smart.com.kh/get-smart/plans/xtralong/
Theoretically you could have $1/week payment for a plan that costs $1/week, if only it reliably worked.
Or on Smart, change to Xtralong? https://www.smart.com.kh/get-smart/plans/xtralong/
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Re: Maintaining SIM card
Thanks for your reply, I was under the impression that you could add some credit like once every two months, for most of them, and it would remain active. I think I read that once on here. And I was using different SIMs while in Cambodia and that seemed about right. If I added credit at the last minute before two months it was maintained.timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 2:54 pm I have a recurring payment on my ABA app, but sometimes it inexplicably fails. That could be a problem if you're offshore and don't have access to the app.
Theoretically you could have $1/week payment for a plan that costs $1/week, if only it reliably worked.
Or on Smart, change to Xtralong? https://www.smart.com.kh/get-smart/plans/xtralong/
Some plans are also $1 for two weeks, like Osja Exchange of Cellcard.
When you say it "inexplicably fails", you mean the recurring payment, the ABA app, or??
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Re: Maintaining SIM card
Yes, the app would just display "payment failed" occasionally.daeum_tnaot wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 3:08 pmThanks for your reply, I was under the impression that you could add some credit like once every two months, for most of them, and it would remain active. I think I read that once on here. And I was using different SIMs while in Cambodia and that seemed about right. If I added credit at the last minute before two months it was maintained.timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 2:54 pm I have a recurring payment on my ABA app, but sometimes it inexplicably fails. That could be a problem if you're offshore and don't have access to the app.
Theoretically you could have $1/week payment for a plan that costs $1/week, if only it reliably worked.
Or on Smart, change to Xtralong? https://www.smart.com.kh/get-smart/plans/xtralong/
Some plans are also $1 for two weeks, like Osja Exchange of Cellcard.
When you say it "inexplicably fails", you mean the recurring payment, the ABA app, or??
Maybe you're right about just having credit and not a plan. Chat online to Smart or whoever to ask, is your best bet.
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Re: Maintaining SIM card
I don't think it matters with Cellcard if you keep adding money or not. If you're away and not actively using the SIM, you'll lose the number after 3 months whether you have credit or not.
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Re: Maintaining SIM card
OK, so you think it's 3 months for cellcard... and you think that the issue is not about credit, or not having credit, but that the SIM is not active in the mobile network?
Re: Maintaining SIM card
Yes. I believe that's the case with Cellcard. I believe you can get a 3 month contract with Smart.
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Re: Maintaining SIM card
i just got a new Metfone sim an am using this: looked at the others an its the best for long term an not losing ur numberdaeum_tnaot wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 3:08 pmThanks for your reply, I was under the impression that you could add some credit like once every two months, for most of them, and it would remain active. I think I read that once on here. And I was using different SIMs while in Cambodia and that seemed about right. If I added credit at the last minute before two months it was maintained.timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 2:54 pm I have a recurring payment on my ABA app, but sometimes it inexplicably fails. That could be a problem if you're offshore and don't have access to the app.
Theoretically you could have $1/week payment for a plan that costs $1/week, if only it reliably worked.
Or on Smart, change to Xtralong? https://www.smart.com.kh/get-smart/plans/xtralong/
Some plans are also $1 for two weeks, like Osja Exchange of Cellcard.
When you say it "inexplicably fails", you mean the recurring payment, the ABA app, or??
https://www.metfone.com.kh/en/mobile/prepaid/4-ever
Now just for those who say i always say thailand is better.
I can add 10 baht 12 times at one time and have 120 baht credit and my number stays good and mine for 1 year..
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
Re: Maintaining SIM card
Good tip from Doc , smart users can get 90days extend for $2
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What's a poor man do when the blues keep following him around.(Smoking Dynamite)
What's a poor man do when the blues keep following him around.(Smoking Dynamite)
Re: Maintaining SIM card
I have a smart-sim card since 2016 and usually i come in august and december to KOW, every year i ask somebody to top up 1 dollar in may or june, and doing that for years without problems. In my eyes if you top up within 6 months, you keep the number.
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